Biology type picture needs identifying!

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Does anyone have any idea what the devil the picture on my profile is? It's some sort of bioloical specimen found on a jumper, but after extensive googling, I have given up. Any ideas??

Can't see your profile.

Is it an animal, or the bodily fluid of one of your DCs?

I've made my profile public now. Its something we've got to identify for uni, but who knows what1

No idea what it is. Could be anything, why do you need to know?

my guess would be pollen of some kind. but I cant make the picture big enough to see properly. just a guess though. whats the magnification?

pollen, moss spores, fungal spores?

hard to tell as there's not much detail and no idea of magnification

looks like teeny tiny eggs - one of them even has what looks like an even teenier duck sitting atop of it.

Could be fungal spores. They are round sometimes. Why?

some pics of various types of fungal spores

We were just send the slide, according to the scale on the side, those larger things are about .05mm across if that helps

We were just send the slide, according to the scale on the side, those larger things are about .05mm across if that helps

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.morgellons-uk.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/spore.gif&imgrefurl=www.morgellons-uk.net/%3Fcat%3D6&usg=__2uUW-FwAUuOJs9pXcNYdS5W59zU=&h=398&w=440&sz=127&hl=en&start=41&zoom=1&tbnid=PnG-WklVM7f7yM:&tbnh=152&tbnw=168&ei=EddCTYu1F4WivgOIhYXDAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfungal%2Bspores%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2TSEH_enGB393%26biw%3D1292%26bih%3D504%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1168&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=1030&vpy=196&dur=255&hovh=213&hovw=236&tx=105&ty=131&oei=3dZCTZuQPIm6vwOR8bzHAQ&esq=4&page=4&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:41&biw=1292&bih=504" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">yours look quite like some of these

err, what module are you doing at the moment? some kind of hint as to which field of biology would be nice...

forensic biology, so it could be anything

forensic biology, so it could be anything

diatoms? other very tiny pond life?!

although if they were found on a jumper I'm betting it's a plant / fungi thing

Looks a bit like yeast budding

Cbeebies?

See you shouldn't have asked a bunch of bored mothers of preschoolers should you

yeast budding = another good possibility

Not diatoms, I don't think - doesn't look like it on Google images anyway

yeast = fungus anyway so budding fungal spores = good coverage of both options.

lol at cbeebies

www.winterhouse.com/blog/pollen.jpg

It does look a bit like this

lol at cbeebies

www.winterhouse.com/blog/pollen.jpg

It does look a bit like this

Looks like ladybird eggs to me, but it's the wrong time of year for them.

Oh, 1/20 of a mm. Probably not then.

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Looks that way