Onion+Cell+Drawing


 * Onion Cell Drawings- All Magnifications**


 * Introduction:** Things look very different from beneath the microscope than in real life. An onion, containing an abundance of plant cells as well as thin layers that are actually one cell thick, is an ideal vegetable to observe. From a mere onion, many things could be discovered about plants and their cells. We were actually able to see each individual cell clearly under the microscope. The purpose of this lab was to observe plant cells under light microscopes and being able to prepare slides. We also had to clearly document what we saw through pictures and labels.


 * Lab:**


 * Conclusion:** Overall, the lab went pretty well. My partner and I successfully got slices of thin onion and put them on slides. Sometimes, it was annoying because the onion kept on wrinkling. When that happened, we had to start over. We also had to start over when we accidentally put too much iodine. I realized that when there's too much iodine, all it looks like under the microscope is muddy water. There had to be a right balance of everything in order the slide to work. I learned how to use the compound light microscope and fine tune it to see cells! I was really surprised that we would be able to see things as small as cells under the compound light microscope, so that was really exciting. Overall, the difficulty of this lab was quite low because all the tasks were rather simple and self explanatory. However, I made one major error in this lab report because I actually didn't know the magnifications of the objective lenses. Now, I understand that they are 40x, 100x, and 400x, which is crucial to my understanding of biology and microscopes. That's probably the only thing that I would change/done better in this report. Other than that, I'm really satisfied with my accomplishment to be able to find tune the microscope to see cells!