You are a cytotechnologist working in a hospital labratory. A doctor has performed a skin biopsy and sent you a swab of some cells. A) Explain how...

A wet mount slide is a very common way to fix a specimen
to a slide.

1) Get a clean slide and cover slip, a small
amount of water, and an eye dropper, along with your
specimen.

2) Place your specimen in the middle of the
slide.

3) Suck up some water into the eye
dropper.

4) Put one drop of water directly on top of your
specimen.

5) Slowly put the cover slip on top of the wet
specimen without getting any bubbles stuck under the cover
slip.

One way to make sure you don’t get bubbles is to put
the cover slip down by placing the edge down first and then slowly lowering the rest of
the cover slip over the specimen. If you do get bubbles, you can slowly push them out
from under the cover slip by putting pressure on top and sliding your finger across
them.