Question

give various steps involved in preparing a temporary mount of onion cells

Answer 1

Hey Chika ❤

Here's ur answer-

Here are steps that are involved in preparing temporary mount of onion cell!

▶ Take uninor fleshy leaf of onion bulb.

▶ with the help of a set of forceps, peel off the skin called epidermis.

▶ this players can be put immediately in a glass dish or watch glass containing water to avoid the peel getting folded and getting dry.

▶ Then pic of Glass slide, put a drop of clean water on it and transfer a feast of peel from the watch glass to the slide.

▶ make sure that he is perfectly flat on the slide.

▶ you may need a thin camel hair paintbrush to help you to transfer the peel.

▶ at this stage put a drop of iodine solution on the piece of onion peel followed by a cover slip

▶ in this way you have prepared a temporary Mount of onion peel.

▶you can observe the slide under the low and high power of a light compound microscope.

Hope it helps ✔

Answer 2

• TAKE AN ONION SCALE FROM AN ONION BULB.
• BREAK THE CONCAVE SIDE OF ONION SCALE IN TWO TILL A TRANSLUCENT THIN MEMBRANE IS SEPARATED.
• TEAR THIS THIN ONION PEEL OR EPIDERMIS IN PIECES.
• KEEP THE PEEL ON GLASS SLIDE AND PUT A DROP OF METHYLENE BLUE STAIN ON IT.
• PUT A DROP OF GLYCERINE AND PLACE A COVERSLIP ON IT.
• CLEAN THE SLIDE FROM EDGES AND OBSEVE THE MOUNT UNDER MICROSCOPE.