Cell staining is highly dependent on what components you want to highlight. For example, sometimes you want to stain the entire cell. Other times, you want to emphasize a particular component like the cell wall.
Iodine is primarily used to stain starches. Since bananas are plants, this means that they have a high starch content. So this makes it ideal for viewing such cells under a microscope. Iodine is also used for Gram-staining. Gram-staining is used to distinguish between two different types of bacterial cell walls: gram-positive and gram-negative.
Methylene blue has multiple uses. Based on the types of cells named, I’m going to assume it was used to show cell division and/or meiosis. In this case, it was used to stain nuclei. It is also used to treat many medical conditions such as hypotension, malaria, and methemoglobinemia.
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