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    This document provides instructions for an experiment using a digital microscope to investigate plasmolysis in red onion cells. Students will use materials like red onion, distilled water, rock salt crystals, and a digital microscope to observe how onion cells react when placed in solutions with different concentrations, allowing them to explain the cellular process of osmosis and develop skills in experimental design and numeracy. The experiment is intended to deepen understanding of topics like cellular structure in plants and the mechanisms of osmotic transport.

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    This document provides instructions for an experiment using a digital microscope to investigate plasmolysis in red onion cells. Students will use materials like red onion, distilled water, rock salt crystals, and a digital microscope to observe how onion cells react when placed in solutions with different concentrations, allowing them to explain the cellular process of osmosis and develop skills in experimental design and numeracy. The experiment is intended to deepen understanding of topics like cellular structure in plants and the mechanisms of osmotic transport.

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    Digital Microscopes - Investigating Plasmolysis in Red Onion Cells

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    Zico
    This document provides instructions for an experiment using a digital microscope to investigate plasmolysis in red onion cells. Students will use materials like red onion, distilled water, rock salt crystals, and a digital microscope to observe how onion cells react when placed in solutions with different concentrations, allowing them to explain the cellular process of osmosis and develop skills in experimental design and numeracy. The experiment is intended to deepen understanding of topics like cellular structure in plants and the mechanisms of osmotic transport.

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    Digital microscopes –

    investigating plasmolysis in
    red onion cells
    This practical work should:
     
    •Support deeper pupil understanding of
    o Cellular basis of living organisms

    o Structure of plant cells

    o Osmosis

    •Generate data to allow pupils to explain plasmolysis

    •Allow exploration of planning and experimental


    design
    •Develop numeracy skills
    National 4 & 5

    Investigating plasmolysis in red onion


    cells   
      
    •Slide and coverslip •Distilled water
    •Blu-tack •1cm3 pipettes
    •Scalpel •Red onion
    •Pointed forceps •Veho digital
    microscope/magnifier
    •Rock salt crystals
    Start microscope
      
    •Connect microscope to
    PC USB port

    •Click icon on desktop

    •Choose area

    •Focus the microscope


    Investigate examples of osmosis…..
    • Water balance in animals and plants

    • Foods

    • Desalination - drinking water from salt water (reverse osmosis)

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