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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Hair

Hair, feathers, scales, and quills are all modified epithelial cells. Let's take a look.
Human hair at 1600xThis is a human hair. Notice it has a slight scaliness to it. 




Eyelash 1600Human eyelash at 1600. I couldn't find any indications that it was scaly, but it does have an odd dark line running through the center.



Eyelash 1600Another view.
Eyelash 100
Human arm hair 1600


Cat hair 1600This is a little difficult to make out, but cat hair shows the same scaliness as human hair.

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