"Freeze-Dried+Specimens"

Dehydrated Preserved

Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.

Various grasses allow you to compare plant anatomy, and examine why some grasses are viable economic crops. Rapidly growing types are great for testing environmental factors and how they influence growth.

Formalin Preserved

Formalin

Formalin preserved chiton. Available in jars.

Formalin preserved sheep brain. Available in jars.

Formalin preserved hagfish. Available in vacuum packs.

Classic experiment to demonstrate crossing over.

Scouring Rush. It features reedy, upright growth habit and whorls of leaves at the nodes. The shoots, which contain silica, were once used to scrub utensils and pots, giving Equisetum its common name of scouring rush. It is supplied in a plastic bag with care instructions. Quantity: 8–12 shoots.

Echinodorus brevipedicellatus
This unusual plant has broad, swordlike leaves.

Plecostomus sp. Nonaggressive. Great tank cleaners, the “suckerfish” clings to aquarium walls with its mouth and scrapes off algae with its tongue. An attractive fish with brown armored scales, it prefers a great deal of vegetation to hide in. Care instructions are included. Size: approximately 2", may grow to 5" or larger. Package of three.

Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is widely used in genetic studies. They express a number of mutations such as eye, wing, and body mutations.

Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, is widely used in genetic studies because they express a number of mutations such as eye, wing, and body mutations.

Sarcophaga bullata are gray flesh flies. These flies are reared on decaying flesh and pupate quickly, within 5 to 7 days from birth, to illustrate complete metamorphosis in Diptera.