microscopy Flashcards

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microscopes let us…

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see things we cant see with the naked eye.

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light microscopes

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use light and lenses to form an image of a specimen and magnify it. let us see individual cells and large subcellular structures, like nuclei

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electron microscopes

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use electrons instead of light to form an image. much higher magnification than light microscopes. higher resolution. let us see much smaller things in more detail, like ribosomes or plasmids

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4
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formula for magnification

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magnification = image size / real size

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