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Why are plant and animal specimens usually stained with dyes before observing them through a microscope ? Name one stain (or dye) used for this purpose.

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To identify a particular cell organelles staining is used otherwise we can't find the cell organelles which we have to study.
For mitochondria - Janus Green
For nucleus - Saffranine

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