Microscope Lab­­ Analysis Questions: 1. What is the advantage of using high power? 2. If a slide has 28 yeast cells in a field of view of 100x, approximately how many yeast cells will be seen when the magnification is increased to 400x? 3. What happens to the appearance of an object when you look at it in the microscope? (think of the letter “e” image) 4. Why is it important to only use the fine focus when on high power? 5. Describe how the onion cell looked different from the cheek cell. what structure could you see in the onion cell that human cells (animal cells) don’t have? 6. Describe the effects of placing an onion cell in a hypertonic solution. 7. Explain what happened to onion cells when they were exposed to distilled water. If a human blood cell is placed in distilled water, it will eventually rupture. Why did the onion cells not rupture when placed in distilled water? 8. After a family picnic, Emily dumped the ice and rock salt from the ice cream maker in the backyard. That area of the yard now contains dead, brown grass. Explain why this happened. 9. Explain why grocery stores frequently spray the vegetables with a fine mist of water.