Extra Bits

Question 1

How to prepare a mounted slide

Answer 1

Using a pipette, place a drop of water onto the middle of a clean microscope slide.
Place your specimen into the water drop using tweezers.
Place a cover slip on top of the specimen at an angle to remove air bubbles
Add any necessary stains after the cover slip is in position.

Question 2

Why should you never push sudeaways on a cover slip

Answer 2

It can damage chromosomes

Question 3

Organelles for eukaryotic cells

Answer 3

Nucleus

2. Ribosomes
3. Plasma membrane -
4. Endoplasmic reticulum
5. Golgi apparatus -
6. Lysosome -
7. Mitochondria -
8. Chloroplast -
9. Vacuole
10. Vesicles -
11. Cell wall -
12. Cytoplasm -

Question 4

Organelles for prokaryotic cells

Answer 4

Cell wall
Mesosome
Capsule
DNA in nucleioid
Plasma membrane
Ribosomes
Plasmid
Cytoplasm
Flagellum

Question 5

Organelles for viruses

Answer 5

Viruses have no organelles due to them relying on their host