Question

What is mounting? List the different types of mounting.

Answer 1

Mounting is the technique used to prepare and place a specimen on a slide for viewing under a microscope. The different types of mounting are:

1. Dry mounting: This is done for inanimate objects and no water is used.
2. Wet mounting: Wet mounting is used to observe animate/living cells and/or small organisms. In wet mounting, the specimen is placed on a slide in a few drops of water and covered with a coverslip. If long term mounting is sought, then water maybe replaced by other liquids such as glycerine.