Product Details
Life in a water drop, 25 different specimens
Life in a Drop of Water consists of 25 slides in series 7000 from Lieder. A slide set suitable for giving pupils and students an in-depth insight into the rich animal and plant life found in water.
Description
The set contains 25 different micropreparations:
- Amoeba proteus – Amoeba (slime)
- Ceratium hirundinella – Fur algae (armor flagellate)
- Euglena – Eye algae, green flagellate with eyespot
- Radiolarians – Marine unicellular organisms with silicate shells in beautiful structures (Foraminifera)
- Paramecium – Ciliate
- Stylonychia – Ciliate
- Spongilla – Freshwater sponges with isolated siliceous skeletal spicules
- Hydra – Freshwater polyp, whole individual or section
- Rotatoria – Rotifers, various species
- Daphnia – Water fleas (Daphnia)
- Cyclops – Copepod
- Chironomus – Dancing midge larva
- Decay bacteria Oscillatoria – Filamentous blue-green algae
- Diatoms – Diatoms, various species
- Desmidiaceae – Coupling algae, various species
- Spirogyra – Slime thread, filamentous ciliated alga with spiral chloroplasts, freshwater
- Eudorina elegans – Green algae, colony-forming flagellate
- Cladophora – Water hair green algae, branched strands form ‘bushes’, the cells contain many nuclei
- Draparnaldia – Green algae, branched filaments that form bushes
- Microcystis – Blue-green algae, forms water bloom
- Ulothrix – Green algae with ribbon-shaped chloroplasts
- Oedogonium – Green algae, unbranched filaments
- Volvox – Green algae. Forms spherical colonies with flagella on the surface of the sphere, smaller daughter colonies can be found within the colony
- Mesotaenium – Coupling algae, forms filamentous colonies
Use of the product
The specimen kit can be used in teaching subjects such as biology and nature/technology. It provides a unique opportunity to explore the world of microorganisms and understand their role in the aquatic ecosystem.
