Lauri Zaker 2014

(PLANTS)

PLANTS THAT

AREN’T...

In the past, there weren’t 3 domains and 6 kingdoms.(The number is evolving into more kingdoms currently)

There were living things and non-living things.Of living things, there were plants and animals.

Some of the slides you’re about to see would have been labeled as plants, but they really aren’t. They belong to other kingdoms.

Life Domain Archaea

Kingdom ArchaeaDomain Bacteria

Kingdom BacteriaDomain Eukarya

Kingdom Animalia Kingdom Plantae Kingdom Fungi

Kingdom Protista

Cyanobacteria are prokaryotes, but look like plants when stuck to rocks.The one in the microscopic image is probably the planktothrix type.

There are many types.The different types fall into different kingdoms.The free floating cyanobacteria in the image would be in the protist category.

This is a quasi-time lapse image.It is a 2 image overlay,with the mint green being

one and the darker aqua the first shot. You can see the rotifer type organism’s 2

positions and the long curved rulerlike cyanobacteria’s 2 positions on the left side

of the image.The curved side of the cyanobacteria on the right stayed in place. cyanobacteria Zeiss Axio 63x Lauri Zaker

Kingdom ProtistaEukaryotic organisms that can be unicellular or multicellular. Has no organs.Ex: plant like protist = algaeEx: animal like protist = protozoansEx: fungus like protist = molds & mildewsReference: slideshare.net

Lichen looks like a plant,but it’s a fungus and algae living

symbiotically together. In the image,you can see the fungal

hyphae (haustoria) plugged into the alga.

lichen Leica DM500 40x brightfield exp.64.5ms Lauri Zaker

California oak tree moss looks like a plant, but it’s a lichen.Actual Spanish moss on southern state trees is actually a bromeliad. You can see the nodules of fungus on the algal veil.

There were a lot of dirty specks on the slide ,etc., so I bucket filled in a background color to help isolate the specimen for viewing.oak tree moss Leica DM500 brightfield 121.7ms Lauri Zaker

A green seaweed from the ocean is actually not a plant; it’s a type of algae.

These are the same slide,although the one on the right was taken a week later. The image on the left was taken on a Leica DM500.The image on the right was taken on a Zeiss Axio Imager.

Green seaweed Leica RGBr fluor.10x Lauri Zaker Green Seaweed Zeiss DIC 10x Lauri Zaker

Red feathery seaweed is actually not a plant. It is an algae.Some people are converting into larger numbers of kingdoms, in which case this seaweed might be put in the protist kingdom or possibly a new one yet to be named.

RGBr Composite Leica DM500 100x oil Lauri Zaker

Red Algae Seaweed

Red Algae Leica DM500 brightfield 40x exp. 2.59ms Lauri Zaker

Leica DM500 kelp 40x RG comp.overlay

Red algae Leica DM500 10x RGBBr.fluor. Lauri Zaker

Extra Interesting Images

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Blueberry Seed Leica DM500 exp.6.85ms Br 40x Lauri Zaker

BlueberrySeed 100x oil

Blueberry Seed Leica DM500 100x 4x4Br+B.fluor. oil/Image J stack Lauri Zaker

blueberry seed BF 100x oil Lauri Zaker

blueberry seed BF 100x oil 8 slice Z stack median Image J Lauri Zaker

blueberry seed 100x oil 8 slice Z stack standard deviation Image J Lauri Zaker

blueberry seed 100x oil 11 slice Z stack with standard deviation

Lauri Zaker

monkey duodenum Leica DM500 40x G.fluor Lauri Zaker

Monkey Duodenum40x