• Question: what is the colour of bacteria under a microscope?

    Asked by tporter to Simon on 9 Mar 2013.
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      Simon Park answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      A good question. They are actually transparent and colourless which makes them very difficult to see so we have to stain them with special chemicals to see them. When they are stained, they can be lots of different colours, pink, purple, etc

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