Drawing

in
Biology

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Rat Kidney Cortex (x400)

3 Types of Drawing

Habit Sketch
To illustrate an entire organism and show all the basic features when
looking at the organism in its entirely

Habit sketch of Rhizopus (x100)

Plan Diagram
To show the distribution of tissues in a section & the proportions of
the different tissues

Ranunculus root cross section (x40)

High Power Drawing

to show detailed cells within a section of a specimen

Ranunculus root vascular cylinder (x400)

If there are a lot cells in the high power view of the

specimen, you can draw one section of the specimen
as a representative of the entire specimen

Under the Microscope

Under the Microscope cheek cell (x400)

Cell membrane

cytoplasm
nucleus

Under the Microscope onion cell (x40)

onion cell (x100)

onion cell (x400)

Think
List down the cell structures expected to be
observed from the leaf specimen of Elodea sp.