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Before Ashley and I made our observations, we came up with the hypothesis that the larger the organism, the larger the cells. There were an array of different types of organisms to observe, but we chose to use Protista/ Carolina Pendinium, Buttercup, Coleus, Pine Stem and Pig.

We soon discovered that there were smaller cells inside the larger cells and these smaller cells,in turn, sometimes had smaller cells. We both always thought that a cell didn't have smaller components. Since each larger cell had so many smaller ones, we measured the largest and the smallest cell and found the average. We used the micrometer scale located on one of the eyes lenses and at the 10x magnitude to measure the largest and smallest cell components. Here is a chart of the data we observed:

We found that the size of the organism did not have any affect on the size of its cell. It seemed logical that the larger the organism, the larger the cell but when we looked back at our data, it showed that the largest of the organisms, the Pig, did not have an average as large as the Pine Stem, which is significantly smaller in size. Although we did not include data from the cells from Kendra's mouth, we quickly observed that those cells were significantly smaller than that of the pig, which was an interesting observation.

Ultimately, by reflecting on our observations, our hypothesis was proven wrong. The size of the cells does not have a direct correlation to the size of the organism.