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Measuring Onion Peel Cell Size

Measuring Onion Peel Cell Size

Experiment description

In this experiment we are going to perform an estimation of the size of an onion epidermal cell using a microscope. We will first measure the diameter of the microscope's field of view using a transparent ruler, convert the measurement from millimetres to micrometres, and then count the number of onion cells present along the diameter. Using these observations, we will calculate the approximate average size of a single cell.