You have prepared a smear and stained it with crystal violet

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You have prepared a smear and stained it with crystal violet Everything is fine until you examine your slide using the oil immersion lens and you find that you cannot focus on the cells because they are floating in the oil You conclude that you made a mistake in which step washing the excess stain off the slide b heat fixing the slide c spreading the bacteria onto the slide d cleaning the slide Question 2 When staining a smear with the simple positive staining method a only Gram positive cells will stain b Gram negative cells will appear white on a gray black background c all cells will appear the same color 0 1 point