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Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM

Cartilage, trabecular bone and bone marrow in a mouse femur

Pig tooth

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) crystals imaged by cross polarised light microscopy. Vitamin C is an antioxidant and is important for collagen formation and wound healing. A good source of vitamin C is found in a variety of fruit and vegetables including citrus friuts, brussels sprouts and broccoli. It is a water soluble vitamin that cannot be stored in the body so needs to be ingested regularly. A lack of Vitamin C causes scurvy. 100X image magnification.

Connective tissue fibres

Yeast cell plasma membrane, Freeze fracture and etching TEM

Centric diatom

Medieval human mandible (lower jaw bone)

Liver

Wasp head, micro-CT

Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

Venus flytrap pollen grains, SEM

Colour diatom

Head louse clinging to strand of human hair, SEM

Section of a mouse gut

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Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

Venus flytrap pollen grains, SEM

Colour diatom

Head louse clinging to strand of human hair, SEM

Section of a mouse gut