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Why it is important to use mythelene blue for animal cell and saffranin for plant cell

Why it is important to use mythelene blue for animal cell and saffranin for plant cell

Grade:8

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Raheema Javed
156 Points
8 years ago
Methylene blueis used to stain animal cells, such as human cheek cells, to make their nuclei more observable.

Saffranin actually acts as a counter-stain. First the plant cells are treated with iodine to weaken the cell wall.
Iodine is also used as a mordant in Gram's staining, it enhances dye to enter through the pore present in the cell wall/membrane. Then saffranin stain is added which easily enters the plant cell.
Prabhakar ch
577 Points
8 years ago
Methylene blue, also known as methylthioninium chloride, has many uses in biology and chemistry; for example, it can be used as a stain and as a medication. It is a heterocyclic aromatic chemical compound with the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₈N₃SCl

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