Carrot and tomato

OBJECTIVE: To observe and indentify the different plasts of a carrot, a potato and a tomato

MATERIAL:

• Knife
• Scalpel
• Potato
• Tomato
• Carrot
• Microscope
• Plate
• Forceps
• Dropper
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PROCEDURE:

Carrot and tomato:

1. Cut a sheet of the carrot and the tomato with a scalpel or with a knife and put it in a plane and put one or two drops of distilled water in each sheet
2. Put the plate on the microscope and observe the plasts of the carrot and the tomato. You will see  the tomato´s chromoplasts and the carrot's chromoplasts

  

Potato:

1. Extract the juice of the potato with a knife or with a scalpel and put it in a plate
2. Then put two or three dops of lugol and remove surplus
3. Put the plate on the microscope and observe it. You will see the potato´s epidermis amiloplasts