3. Why a smear preparation is preferred compare to a wet mount?

Question

3. Why a smear preparation is preferred compare to a wet mount?

Answer 1

When you want to examine a sample for parasites or bacteria, or cells that are usually loose, like blood cells,  a smear is preferred. It is a lot easier to do.

Answer 2

Depends on what your doing

if looking at bacteria then you probably would want a smear- for most bacteria