Specialised plant cells include root hair cells, palisade cells, xylem cells and phloem cells. Just like animals, plants are made of tiny little cells. Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a ...

Students could view vessels of celery left to stand in food colouring with a hand lens and use a light microscope to look at prepared slides of the xylem and phloem to compare their structure.

these are the wood or xylem, and the phloem or bast. Usually, the sieve-tubes of the phloem have been regarded as the channels of sugar transport, as micro-chemical observations, such as those of ...