This week, I learned about the structures of cells, more precisely, animal cells and plant cells. We looked at our own cells by rubbing the inside of our mouth with a toothpick and rubbing that stuff onto a slide. We then looked at the slide under a microscope and drew our observations onto our notebooks. There were 2 slides we had to make with our partners: one slide with blue dye, and the other one with nothing. I figured out that the slide with the blue dye was easier to find the cells in, and I was able to see the cell more clearly than the slide with nothing. The dye made the cell more visible and showed more details than the one without dye. Our class also researched the many parts of a animal cell and a plant cell. The picture of the cell above ( it mysteriously disappeared) is a animal cell. It has the DNA in the middle, which is purple in the diagram. The green wavy organelle is the endoplasmic reticulum. The red organelle is the Golgi apparatus. There are many more that I have not mentioned.