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Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM

Arabidopsis thaliana plant cells containing chloroplasts, LM

Chia (Salvia hispanica) seeds

Myxoid liposarcoma, microscopy

Pollen grains, Agapanthus, SEM

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Chloroplast in a bean leaf, TEM

Leishmania mexicana parasites in the amastigote stage, SEM

Leishmania mexicana parasites in the promastigote stage, SEM

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Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Chloroplast in a bean leaf, TEM

Leishmania mexicana parasites in the amastigote stage, SEM

Arabidopsis thaliana plant cells containing chloroplasts, LM

Leishmania mexicana parasites in the promastigote stage, SEM