2. You are viewing your slide of freshly Gram stained Escherichia You are very pleased with
how readily you can see the pink-red colored bacteria with the 40x objective. You think
you have identified a few rare violet round shaped cells and want to bring this to your
teacher's attention because you fear the sample may be contaminated. You position the
rare violet round shaped cells so that they are in the upper right side of the field of view
surrounded by plenty of pink-red rod shaped cells for contrast. You add oil and slide the
100x objective into place. Upon focusing and viewing the slide, now all you can see are
the pink-red rod shaped cells. Were your eyes playing tricks on you? Describe what likely
happened to your violet round shaped cells.