EYESPOT APPARATUSES
THE EYES OF THE CELL
What is an Eyespot Apparatus?
● A Green Organelle Found
in Photosynthetic Unicellular Organisms
○ Like This Algae Cell
● Its Primary
What
Does ItFunction
Do? is to Capture Light
○ Draws Phototaxis Organisms to Light
○ Repels Non-Phototaxis Organisms away
from light
What Does It do?
Some Helpful Pictures
These are the
flagellates which the
eyespots are located.
The approxim
ate area of
one is 1 µm2
Lipid rich globeulols.
This was
taken by a
transmission
electron
microscope
The thylakoid
membrane.
Other Than Eyes, What Else Are They
Like?
I think of the eyespots as antennas of any ship in battle. They
can tell where good light or "signals" are and where bad
"signals" are. The good signals would symbolize light for a
phototaxis organism and bad signals would be light to a nonphototaxis organism.
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