Students want to conduct an investigation to identify living things. They write down the first three steps of their investigation.

Information
Step 1: Create a thin slice of an onion root tip and place it onto a microscope slide.

Step 2: Add dye to the slide and place a coverslip over the dyed sample.

Step 3: Look at the slide using a microscope under high magnification.

Question
What should the students observe and record in step four of the investigation?

Answer options with 4 options
A.
the size of the sample

B.
the color of the sample

C.
the shape of things in the sample

D.
the presence of cells in the sample

1 answer

In step four of the investigation, the students should observe and record what they see under the microscope. Since the purpose of their investigation is to identify living things and they are examining an onion root tip, the most relevant observation would be concerning the cells present in the sample.

Therefore, the best answer option for what the students should observe and record is:

D. the presence of cells in the sample