Upper epidermis of a deciduous leaf

Article no. P1441801 | Type: Experiments

grades 5-7 , grades 7-10

30 Minutes

10 Minutes

easy

Pupils

Principle

The leaf of a deciduous plant consists of several layers. Cells containing chloroplasts are found in deeper layers. The externally exposed tissue layer protects the plant against evaporation losses, however, it must also be transparent to light needed for photosynthesis in the deeper layers.

Benefits

Experiment is part of a complete solution set with a total of 50 experiments for all microscopy applications
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