Making and viewing Onion cells

Easy Questions

1. What is the correct way to hold the microscope?

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2. Name the plant you used in this experiment. ____________________
3. Name a piece of apparatus you used to get a suitable piece of this plant tissue. ___________
4. Name the stain you used on your plant tissue sample. ___________________

A little more difficult..

5. Why did you use a stain in this experiment?

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6. What are the clips for on the stage?
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7. What was one difficulty you encountered when making your slide?
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Even harder still!

8. When preparing a wet mount slide you must lower your cover slip slowly and at an angle
why?
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9. Explain why you start at the lowest power lens when viewing slides?
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10. Explain why you use the course focus wheel first and the fine focus wheel?
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11. Why do you think the onion cells you saw had no chloroplast in them?
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