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Why would a wet mount be used?
The benefit of a wet mount is that you can view the specimen in its natural environment without killing it. If you do a wet mount you can get proper air around the microbes to view them for a while before they possibly die. If you do a hanging wet mount you have the capability to see them moving in an aerated manner.
Which works best with phase contrast microscopy wet mount or hang drop?
wet mount slide
Why is a wet mount used?
Wet mounts allow one to view living material versus dead material.
What are the steps of the wet mount?
the five steps to making a wet mount slide is 1.use a flat glass slide to prepare a wt mount slide 2.suck up a few drops of water from your liquid specimen into a medicaine dropper 3.pick up the wet mount slide on the 2 outer sides of the slides 4.place the specimen your using into the water 5.place the top cover slips on the top of the water with the specimen in it (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (:
How should you remove extra water from a wet mount slide?
Press down on the coverslip
What is a wet mounts?
mount thats wet. :trollface:
Why would a wet mount be used?
The benefit of a wet mount is that you can view the specimen in its natural environment without killing it. If you do a wet mount you can get proper air around the microbes to view them for a while before they possibly die. If you do a hanging wet mount you have the capability to see them moving in an aerated manner.
Which works best with phase contrast microscopy wet mount or hang drop?
wet mount slide
What Slide mount is used for viewing an Elodea leaf?
a wet mount
Advantages of the wet-mount preparation?
Cells remain moist in a wet mount, allowing you to see the cell components clearly. Specimens appear in their natural condition. It is possible to observe living and moving organisms. It is also possible to observe certain processes of life, such as feeding and cell division (for water-based mounts).
Why a smear preparation is preferred compare to a wet mount?
bcoz a heat-fix smear have a good contrast than the wet mount
What info can you observe on a wet mount that cannot be seen on a stained preparation?
The movement of a bacteria can be seen on a wet mount. This movement can not be seen in a stained preparation.
What is an advantage of a simple stain over a wet mount?
You can see clearer images in the simple stain technique rather than the wet mount technique...
What does the stain on a wet mount slide do?
Wet mounts don't typically use stains.
What is the final item placed on wet mount before viewing with a light?
The cover slip is the last item to be placed on a wet mount slide before viewing.
In wet mount preparations is it possible to see eukaryotic flagella procaryotic flagella why?
In wet mount preparations, is it possible to see eukaryotic flagella? prokaryotic flagella
When perform direct wet mount?
it is anpescible amilia?
