A microbiologist makes a fixed smear of bacterial cells and stains them with Loeffler's methylene blue. All the cells appear blue under the oil lens. This is an example of

What will be an ideal response?


simple staining

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Which of the following lies beneath the C horizon in soil?

a. bedrock b. O horizon c. soil base d. water table

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Most or all protist cells have

a. a nucleus. b. a cytoskeleton. c. larger ribosomes than those of prokaryotes. d. mitochondria, ER, and Golgi bodies. e. all of these.

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Energy stored in which of the following molecules is converted by mitochondria to a form usable by

the cell? a. water b. organic compounds c. NAD d. ATP e. carbon dioxide

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