2021's Best Photos of the Microscopic World

Trichome and stomata

An oak leaf, showing trichomes and stomata, at 60-times magnification. Image: Jason Kirk

Biologist Jason Kirk from Baylor College of Medicine was awarded first place for this image of hair-like trichomes (shown in white) and stomata (the purple pores), as seen on a southern live oak leaf.

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