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There is a certain chemical you can use, but a dark colored food coloring works.
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Stain name used for onion cells?
safranine stain is used to stain onion cells
How we can use acetocarmine to stain the onion root tip cells?
take the root tip (about 1 cm )and put it in dil. HCL solution for ten min. take the tip out and put in acetocarmine stain for 1min. take out the root put it in water bto remove extra stain .
Why is the root tip of an onion heated with acid?
The acid hardens the root tip so that it is less likely to break. The root tips have to be heated so that the stain is up taken and able to properly reach the chromatin ( which is dyed by the acectic orecin stain). This helps the cells to be seen more clearly under the microscope.
Where in the onion plants are the green cells located?
the root
Does an onion root have prokaryotic cells?
Onion roots are not photosynthetic.They do not have.
Use of acetocarmine in onion root tip squash?
Acetocarmine is a DNA specific stain like feulgen stain, so the super coiled chromosomes during different stages of mitosis present in the Onion root tip cells can be visualized perfectly by treating with this stain.
Stain name used for onion cells?
safranine stain is used to stain onion cells
How we can use acetocarmine to stain the onion root tip cells?
take the root tip (about 1 cm )and put it in dil. HCL solution for ten min. take the tip out and put in acetocarmine stain for 1min. take out the root put it in water bto remove extra stain .
Why is the root tip of an onion heated with acid?
The acid hardens the root tip so that it is less likely to break. The root tips have to be heated so that the stain is up taken and able to properly reach the chromatin ( which is dyed by the acectic orecin stain). This helps the cells to be seen more clearly under the microscope.
Where in the onion plants are the green cells located?
the root
Does an onion root have prokaryotic cells?
Onion roots are not photosynthetic.They do not have.
What is the shape of onion root tip cells?
how does the shape of a root hair cell help take in water so quickly
What is the function of these epidermis onion cells?
The root cell's job is to gather minerals and and take it up the roots to the onion.
In the onion root tip do the daughter cells occupy the same column of cells as the parent cell?
yes and it goes the same for all cells in the root tip
Why was it necessary to stain the onion and the cheek cells?
So you can see different components of the cell. Like the nucleus.
Why don't onion cells contain the function of a chloroplast?
The onion is a part of the root, which is usually underground. Thus, it has no need for chloroplasts to photosynthesize.
What effect did staining the onion cells have on their appearance under the microscope?
how do cells of the onion specimen appear under the microscope
