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An onion is easy to peel to 1 layer of cells, and with a light microscope you cant see the individual cells in a leaf.

Also the cell obtained from the bulb of onion is colorless, hence it can be easly stained with different dyes to study the cell organells under the microscope.

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Q: Why do you use the onion for cell sample and not the leaf?
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