Vertebrate Microscope Slides
Vertebrate anatomy, organ systems, and comparative tissue samples.
Every slide here is a scan of a real prepared specimen, not a simulation or a drawing. Pan from the whole slide down to individual cells, always in focus, and measure structures in real micrometers. Present a slide live and every student screen follows your view and annotations. Students join with a room code on Chromebooks, iPads, or any browser, with no accounts.
11 Vertebrates slides
- Bird Feather (Whole Mount) Aves: This whole mount shows part of a bird feather, stained red so that its fine structure stands out against the background. A central shaft called the rachis…
- Chicken Blood Smear Gallus gallus domesticus: This blood smear from a domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is stained with Wright-Giemsa. Most of the cells are red blood cells, which are oval and…
- Fish Blood Smear Cyprinus carpio: This is a smear of fish blood from a carp (Cyprinus carpio), stained with Giemsa. Most of the cells are red blood cells, which are oval and have a dark…
- Fish Gill (Cross Section) Actinopterygii: This cross section of a bony fish gill is stained with H&E. Two rows of long gill filaments branch off the gill arch, and each filament is held up by a rod of…
- Fish Scales (Whole Mount) Cyprinus carpio: This is a whole mount of a fish scale from a common carp (Cyprinus carpio), stained red with safranin. Carp have cycloid scales, which are thin, bony plates…
- Frog Blood Smear Rana temporaria: This is a blood smear from a frog (Rana temporaria), a thin layer of blood spread on a slide and stained. Almost every cell here is a red blood cell. Frog red…
- Frog Skin (Cross Section) Rana temporaria: This is a cross section of frog skin (Rana temporaria), stained with H&E, which colors nuclei purple and other tissue pink. The outer layer, the epidermis, is…
- Human Blood Smear Homo sapiens: This is a smear of human blood (Homo sapiens), spread thin on a slide and stained with Wright-Giemsa. Most of the field is filled with red blood cells, small…
- Ovary of Fish (Section) Cyprinus carpio: This section through a fish ovary, from a carp (Cyprinus carpio), is stained with H&E. It is packed with oocytes, or egg cells, at many stages of growth. The…
- Skin of Fish (Cross Section) Cyprinus carpio: This cross section of carp (Cyprinus carpio) skin is stained with H&E. The thickest layer is the dermis, a wide band of dense pink connective tissue made of…
- Testicle of Fish (Section) Cyprinus carpio: This section of a fish gonad from a common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is stained with H&E. The tissue is folded into lobes that surround a large open space in the…