Observation Examples of Living Organisms
Observation of Cellulose
![Observation of Cellulose](/an/sites/shimadzu.com.an/files/d7/ckeditor/an/qn5042000000714p-img/qn50420000007156.jpg)
This image shows the cellulose fibers in nata de coco and the Acetobacter xylinum that creates them. It can be seen clearly how the fibers, which are only a few tens of nanometers thick, cross over each other.
(Data provided by Dr. Azuma, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University)