Question

2. A student observed a cell under a microscope. She wanted to determine what type of cell she was observing. She drew a diagram of the cell and labeled the parts.Below is her drawing.What type of cell was she most likely observing and what evidence supports this claim?A fungal cell because it has no chloroplasts.A plant cell because it has a cell wall.A plant cell because it has a vacuole.A fungal cell because it has a vacuole.

Answer 1

Cell under the microscope

The cell represented in the drawing is most likely to be a fungal cell, because, among other things, it has no chloroplast, a structure present in plant cells that allows them to do the process of photosynthesis.

In the case of fungal cells, they are heterotrophs, i.e they consume the organic compounds they need to produce energy, in opposition to autotrophs plant cells that produce organic compounds from which they take the energy from inorganic compounds, in the process of photosynthesis.