The Study of Ground Tissue, It

Abstract In this lab I looked at different tissues of a plant in prepared and freshly prepared slides. Each of these slides showed the various tissues and cell types that make up a plant. I, specifically, looked at the angiosperm plants. I examined these plants by using the naked eye and drew diagrams describing the morphology of the plant. I, also, examined and drew diagrams of the anatomy of the plants by using a light …

…shape. When I looked at the oak secondary xylem (figure 5) I saw a vessel member. It was short (relative to the tracheid) with a cylinder-like shape and it had a wide diameter. It seemed to have a thin cell wall, compared to the tracheid. The tracheids were long, in comparison to the vessel member, and were tubular. Its cell wall seemed thicker than that of the vessel member. Both vessel member and tracheids had pits.