A colorful petal to a dull and lifeless one

  

 When you first view these pictures, what do you immediately assume?

 

 

 These pictures show the petal of a flower called an orchid!

 

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When we look at it in the beginning when it has color and life, it shows that the cells

of the petals are almost in a smooth pentagon or hexagon shape with a nucleus in the center.

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The cells each have a nucleus - which consists of the cell's DNA - and also a

cell wall on the outer part of each of their bodies.

 

 

 

 

After waiting a month and looking once again at the petal, I was surprised when I saw that the petal's cells seemed to have all been broken from their usual form and the 3D looks they once retained were now replaced with a flat dull appearance.

 

 

What was most surprising however was that even though everything else looked different, there was one thing remaining good as new: the nucleus,

ultimately showing that even when a petal of a flower dies, their DNA won't fade away and thus still retain the identity of the petal.

 

 

 

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