Microscope+Skills+Lab

Introduction: For this lab, it mainly focused on enhancing our microscope skills by making us examine various types of specimen. Pond Scum, prepared slides and potato and cheek cells. We needed to know how to prepare a wet mount, use the coarse and fine adjustment knobs to find the specimen under different magnifications and correctly draw what we see on paper. This lab raised our level of observation because it wasn't just a simple drawing, we had to include the field of view, how many could fit into that field of view, and other observations taken from looking into the microscope. We had to find live bacteria in the pond scum and discuss the behavior of what we found.

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Conclusion: In this microscope lab, what we did well is finding the slides under different magnification and preparing the slides. However what could be improved is our drawings of the specimen we saw under the microscope because some of them takes some time to figure out what it is (not too exact). Also it was difficult finding the nucleus and the bacteria in the pont scum was difficult to follow because they squirmed from place to place with no actual pattern. I learned a lot about how to efficiently and quickly find the slides under different magnifications, also i am used to and can easily find the slides.I think to do better next time, we need to understand and closely read the directions given and by drawing and observing the nucleus of every specimen.