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Blood

It is not that often that I look at blood under the microscope. It usually happens when I get injured and have the opportunity to get a microscope. After an unfortunate shave, I act quickly so that I can prepare a slide from the blood before it dries up.

Pollen

Pollen is a fantastic subject to study with a microscope. The diversity of shapes of pollen grains is enormous and a lot of interesting information can be derived from it.

Chromoplasts

The wide variety of colors in flowers and fruits is largely caused by pigment containing organelles called chromoplasts. Chromoplasts belong to the plastids and they are responsible for the bright red, orange and yellow colors in many fruits and flowers.