1. Place the specimen on the slide. (make sure it's laying flat)
2. Add 2-3 drops of the stain
3. Gently lower the coverslip onto the slide, making sure there are no bubbles.
4. The slide is now ready for examination.
From there, set up your microscope and you're ready!
We used onion as our "specimen" and iodine as our stain.
The shape of a plant cell looks similar to that of a honeycomb!
And the animal cell is irregular and unorganised
After everything was down, we were tasked to draw and label diagrams to show what the cells look like.
These are the two I did, sorry I can't get them bigger without messing with the amazing layout that Blogger has
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