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WEEK I

CYANOBACTERIA

 Anabaena heterocysts spores – Filaments with heterocysts and

spores, showing chains of cells

 Oscillatoria – Simple, unbranched filaments

ALGAE

DIATOMS

 Navicula – Boat-shaped; indicator of industrial pollution in high

concentrations.

 Diatoms Mixed

GREEN ALGAE

 Chlorella

 Cladophora, General – Branched filaments with multinucleate cells.

 Pandorina – Spherical, sixteen-celled colony.

 Scenedesmus – Colonies of elongated cells united laterally; terminal cells with

spine-like

 Spirogyra, Vegetative – cells with several chloroplasts; also showing nucleus,

pyrenoids, and other cytoplasmic details.

 Volvox – Asexual and sexual reproductive stages.

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PROTOZOA

RHIZOPODA

 Amoeba proteus, Selected – Stained to clearly show nuclear and other cellular
detail.

EUGLENOZOA

 Euglena – General study. Demonstrates nucleus, chloroplasts,

contractile vacuole, and flagellum.

CILIOPHORA

 Blepharisma – Large ciliate with divided marcronucleus.

 Euplotes eurystomus (Demonstration only)

- Special sliver line stain clearly shows the fine morphological details
of this ciliate.

 Paramecium caudatum

 Paramecium in Conjugation

 Stentor – Trompet-shaped spirotrich. Large Marcronucleus appears in the form

of a long chain of beads.

 Vorticella – Petrichous ciliate, contractile stalk and band-shaped nucleus.