Questions 1. What would you observe if you decolorized your slide too much? How would your cells appear? (Make sure you understand what is going on in each step of the Gram stain; that is key to answering this question as well as questions 3 and S.) 2. How would you describe the morphology and arrangement of the cells in your stained preparation? 83
3. You are looking at the smear of the mixture. All of the cells, cocci and bacilli, appear deep purple. What could have gone wrong? 4. Explain the relationship between the observed Gram reaction and bacterial cell wall structure. 5. You mistakenly confuse the primary stain and counterstain. You initially stain the smear with safranin, ad. iodine, and then decolorize and counterstain with crystal violet. How does your mixed culture now appear when viewed with oil immersion)
Interpretation and Interpretation and Questions 1. What would you observe if you decolorized your slide too much? How would your cells appe
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