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DNA showing unravelling strands.  Pen and ink diagram.

Dissecting microscope diagram.  Pen and ink line drawing. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Compound microscope illustration.  Line diagram Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)    

Common or Peleides blue morpho butterfly Morpho peleides.  Butterfly is on a leaf with magnified detail of the structure of the wing scales.  These ridges cause iridescence.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Euglena cut to white showing green photosynthetic colour and organelles

Hylobacter schematic illustration showing the bacteria with fringes

Nematode worm showing transparent nature and internal organs and body parts. Cut to white

Pen and ink illustration of a the life in a drop of water under the microscope including Paramecium amoeba bell-animalcule and algae

Micro organism group amoeba euglena paramecium cut to white

Amoeba cut to white idealised schematic illustration in blue with organelles clearly depicted

Daphnia about to be eaten by the bladder of the carnivorous bladderwort Utricularia species

Diatom group showing diverse shapes and colours of these organisms