Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

Fall 2001

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My purpose is to share my experience with counting chromosomes in the plant kingdom. It is first structured to explain how the technique was done, and then there are a few pictures which might help the reader to understand how the equipment was used.

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The stain is placed onto the slide.
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Passing the slide over an alcohol flame.
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Dissecting out the root tips.
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Mayers albumen placed on the cover slip.
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Cover slip with albumen passed over the alcohol lamp.
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Place the cover slip over the stained root tips on the slide.
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Squashing the tissue with your thumb.
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Examining the material with a phase contrast microscope.
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Slide and cover slip placed in a square Coplin jar of 10% acetic acid.
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Cover slip and slide now separated
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Removing the cover slip.
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Passing the cover slip through five solutions.
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Five wheaton dishes are employed.
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Placing the Euparal onto a clean slide.
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Combining cover slip onto the Euparal on the side
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A view of the drawing tube on the microscope.
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Meiotic chromosomes in pairs.
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Mitotic chromosomes in pairs.
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