dried up kelp

I'm sure some of us have seen aquatic plants such as elodeas or (maybe) algae under the microscope. But how about dried kelp?

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Because I had once looked at elodea under the microscope before, I expected to still see numerous amounts of chloroplasts clustered inside the cell wall (even if they were dried up). I was absolutely wrong.

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Upon closer inspection however, I realized that the black spots were likely the nuclei that still remained which I thought was quite fascinating. However, what I also noticed was how because there wasn't any water, areas around the cells were completely dried up but traces of the cells were still existing.

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