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What Is The Advantage Of A Wet Mount Microscopy? [Solved]

Why would use a wet mount? To increase the specimens translucency and to make it easier to stain. Using a wet mount slide has the tendency to flatten the specimen making it easier to view.

wet mounts - the wet mount method and the hanging drop method for motility

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A wet mount of a hay infusion

Some water from Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin was placed in a plastic cup with hay and incubated at 30°C for 3 days.

Micro Ch. 3, Microscopy Techniques

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