• Question: What is the most fascinante animal, plant cell you've ever seen?

    Asked by adpdp2004 to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 14 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      I haven’t seen many plant cells because i don’t do any lab work with microscopes. I haven’t see a duck-billed platypus in real like, or an echidna, but they are absolutely fascinating because they break all sorts of “rules” of the natural kingdom.

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      The whip spider, though looking menacing, are harmless to humans. We found them in Guatemala in the caves.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblypygi

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      I don’t really work with plants and haven’t seen their cells in particular but I do really like daisys – they always remind me of making daisy chains as a child and sitting out on the lawn! Animals, hmm, I have seen lots of animals, maybe the most fascinating were the baby tortoises I helped to ‘rescue’ and take down to the beach whilst in Borneo. For their size they were soooo powerful! And the journey they had to make just to begin their life, before battling with predators in the sea, was absolutely amazing!

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      If you mean what animal do I find fascinating then I would say the corn bunting because of the way it sings in precise dialects, each few fields having 20 birds singing exactly the same song – completely different to the song of the birds in the next-door field.
      I prefer to study whole organisms rather than individual cells, seeing what all those cells do when they work together.

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