Saturday, October 12, 2013

Looking at the Green Algae Mixture Under a Microscope

I looked at The Green Algae Mixture under my science teacher's microscope. It looks like this......




What I saw:
I saw little green bead looking things, these where Chlorella they were the one of the only types of algae I saw and the most common I saw.
Chlorella
(Picture Source: http://www.ifood.tv/blog/repair-your-damaged-dna-with-these-foods)

In one of the Chlorella colonies I thought I saw Ulothrix, because the algae seem to have a long stem like feature which looks just like Ulothrix.
Ulothrix
 
 (Picture Source: http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/images/Chlorophyta/Ulothrix/sp_1e.html)

I didn't see the next two type of algae while looking in the Microscope but I do think they probably are somewhere in my Green Algae Mixture anyway.


They are called.....                                                  Volvox

(Picture Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikrofoto.de-volvox-8.jpg)


                                                                      Scenedesmus



(Picture Source: http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/pdb/images/chlorophyta/scenedesmus/quadricauda/index.html)


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