1. Cheek Cell
LAB

4. 5. Why is Iodine necessary?
Our cheek cells are clear. Iodine is a brown color. It is also a stain. I will turn our cheek cells a brown color so that we will see them.

5. 6. The light microscope used in the lab is NOT powerful enough to view other organelles in the cheek cell. What parts of the cell were visible.
Cell membrane
Cytoplasm
You might have seen
nucleus

6. 6. List 3 organelles that were NOT visible but should have been in the cheek cell.
Mitochondria
Ribosomes
Endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi body
Vacuoles
Lysosomes
chloroplasts

7. 7. Is the cheek cell a eukaryote or prokaryote? How do you know?
Because it has a nucleus