Prepare an onion skin slide

Each onion quarter will sepa­rate neatly into layers.

Hold one of the layers with both hands, so that it curves toward you.

Push your thumbs away from you and pull the two edges of the onion layer together.

Starting at one of the torn edges, pull the transparent, paper-thin layer of epidermis, or outer skin, from the surface. It comes off in a sheet.

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SciGen Unit L7 • Seeing Inside Cells