To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells ... It is usually drawn to show a single cell, eg of a single cheek cell or onion cell.

Dr. James Lim, associate professor of pediatrics at UBC’s faculty of medicine, observes pediatric cancer cells grown in a ...

The stain can be applied to live, detergent-permeabilized or fixed cells for quantification of their distribution among the three main phases of the cell cycle (G 0 /G 1, S and G 2 /M).

You should not look through the microscope to do this ... It is usually drawn to show a single cell, eg of a single cheek cell or onion cell.