Cells & Tissues Flashcards
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what is magnification?
increase in apparent size of an object when seen under microscope.
what is resolution?
minimum distance between two point on an object that can be distinguished as two separate entities.
what is a microscope?
a device used for the magnification of the sample
who developed first compound microscope?
Zacharias Janssen 1595
resolution of human eye is ______.
0.1mm
with the help of ______, resolution can be increased.
lenses
types of microscope?
2 LM EM
LM’s magnification power?
1500X
LM’s resolving power?
0.2 micrometer
what is micrograph?
a photograph taken through a microscope.
what is LM
A light microscope works by passing visible light through a specimen. It uses two glass lenses i.e. eyepiece & objective.
EM’s magnification power?
upto 1,000,000X
EM’s resolving power?
0.2nm
what is EM?
what is TEM?
specimens are cut into extremely thin sections before studying
TEM is used to study the internal cell structure
why EM can’t be used to study life processes?
vacuum chamber
what is SEM?
what did Aristotle contributed to the formation of cell theory?
he presented the idea that all animals and plants are somehow related.
who described cells at first?
British scientist Robert Hooke in 1665.
who saw living cells for the first time?
Dutch naturalist Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek. He observed tiny organisms (from pond water) under his microscope and called
them as “animalcules”.
who discovered the first nucleus?
British botanist Robert Brown
1831
what did Matthias Schleiden contribute to the cell theory?
He stated that all plants are aggregates of individual cells which are fully independent.
who was Theodor Schwann?
1839, a German zoologist
he reported that all animal tissues are also composed of individual cells.
who was Rudolf Virchow?
1855, a German physician, proposed an important extension of cell theory. He proposed that all living cells arise from pre-existing cells (“Omnis cellula e celula”).