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Adding methylene blue to a slide will stain animal cells and make the nuclei more visible.

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It is a colouring reagent. Methylene blue is useful for the staining of bacterial cells. it is one of the staining reagent of Gram staining technique.

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Chemical sometimes used to make the specimen visible on a microscope?

Methylene blue is an example.


What is the chemical that sometimes is used to make the specimen visible on a microscope?

An example is methylene blue.


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Adding methylene blue to sugar water solution.


Why did you need to add methylene blue to the slide?

Because some things that you might look at under a microscope are transparent and hard to see. Adding Methylene Blue to the slide would dye the stuff blue.....i think.


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What is the behavior of methylene blue towards the animal charcoal?

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Why is methylene blue used as an indicator of cell respiration?

because methylene blue turns colourless when it is reduced by hydrogen. during respiration hydrogen is produced and instead of reducing NAD, it reduces methylene blue and turns methylene blue colourless. if methylene blue goes from blue to colourless then this shows that the cell is respiring as it is producing a suffiecient amount of hydrogen to decolourise methylene blue


Which of the availble stain enhance your observation the most methylene blue or iodide?

Methylene Blue


What color is simple staining on a bacillus and coccus using methylene blue stain?

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How does methylene blue affect the paramecium?

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What is methylene blue use for when gram staining?

Methylene blue can be used to prepare slide for animal cells. For example, if you want to examine a piece of your cheek cell, you would take a piece of cotton wool and rub it on the inside of your cheek and the rub it on a microscope slide, the you add a little distilled water and then a drop of methylene blue. The final step you would take, is to cover the slide with a cover slip, then place it under the microscope.