Given the information provided below, which of the following cells could photosynthesize? How do you know?

Question

Given the information provided below, which of the following cells could photosynthesize? How do you know?

Given Cell Slides (under a microscope)

1) Corn (Zea mays) Root

2) Pivot (ligustrum Leaf)

3) Lilac Leaf

4)Lilium Young

5)Anthoceros sporophyte

6)Zea Mays leaf

7)Corn Zea May

8)Blue-Green Algae Mix

9) Volvox

Answer 1

I'm not 100% sure of all the items you described on your list since botany is not my specialty. However, photosynthetic tissues will have chloroplasts and will thus appear greenish under the microscope due to the chlorophyll. Multicellular organisms such as corn can have specialized cells for different tasks and therefore not all cells will have chloroplasts.