An electron micrograph therefore provides an excellent ... Besides the nucleus, two other organelles — the mitochondrion and the chloroplast — play an especially important role in eukaryotic ...

In the study, red algae chloroplasts were placed into cultured hamster cells, which were then analyzed with imaging techniques like confocal and electron microscopy. Photosynthetic activity was ...

These revelations were made when the researchers examined the chloroplast membranes under a cryo-scanning electron microscope ...

Electron microscopes pass beams of electrons through a specimen and have a much greater resolution than a light microscope ... parts of a cell e.g. inside a chloroplast or mitochondrion.

Of course, chloroplasts are not the only DNA-containing ... were Margit and Sylvan Nass in 1963. With a powerful electron microscope, they were able to zoom in on part of a mitochondrion and ...