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What are the two main types of microscopes

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  1. Light

2. Electron

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What are 3 types of electron microscopes?

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  1. Transmission Electron Microscopy
  2. Scanning Electron Microscopy
  3. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
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What is a light microscope?

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Any microscope that uses visible light to observe specimens

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What are the two lenses that are used in a light microscope?

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  1. Objective Lens

2. Ocular Lens

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Where is a objective lens located and what does it do?

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Closest to the slide

Magnifies the specimen 10-100x

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Where is the ocular lens located and what does it do?

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Within the eyepiece of the microscope

Magnifies specimen 10x

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How do you figure out the magnification of a compound microscope?

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Objective lens magnification x ocular lens magnification

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What is resolution?

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The ability to distinguish fine detail and structure, two 2 points a certain distance apart

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In order for two objects to be seen as distinct from one another what must happen

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Light must pass between

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Short wavelengths= ________ energy =_______ resolution

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Higher energy, higher resolution

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What is the general principle of resolution

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The shorter the wavelength of the light, the better the resolution to be

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How do electron microscopes work?

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Use a beam of electrons instead of light

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Are electron waves longer or shorter than light waves?

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Much shorter

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Can electron microscopes achieve less or greater resolution compared to a light microscope

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Much greater (up to 500,000x)

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What is the smallest object visible with the human eye?

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0.10 mm

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How small can a compound microscopes view objects? Electron?

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Electron- 0.2 nanometres

Compound- 0.2 um

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What is a transmission electron microscope used to examine?

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Internal Cell Structure

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What is thin sectioning

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Cell being cut in order to be viewed

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Can transmission electron microscopes see through a cell?

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no, the electron beams do not penetrate the thick cell wall

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What is an example of a stain used when thin sectioning?

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Uranium

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Scanning electron microscopes view what?

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Only the surface of an object

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What is required to view something with a scanning electron microscopy?

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The specimen must be coated with a thin find of heavy metal ex.gold

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How magnified can a scanning electron microscope see?

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15-100,000x

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What is the most powerful electron microscope?

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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What is a scanning tunnelling microscopy used to see?
Atoms
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How does a scanning tunnelling microscopy work?
Uses a thin metal probe to scan specimens revealing surface irregulations
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What must be used on the microorganism so that it is visible under a light microscope?
Stains
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Stains are composed of what?
Negatively and positively charged ions
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What is a chromophore?
The coloured negative or positive stain
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What are the steps of the staining procedure for microorganisms before being viewed under a light microscope
1. Thin film called smear containing the microorganism is put onto slide 2. Sample is fixed by passing through a flame 3. Stain is applied to sample 4. Stain is removed by rinsing 5. The stain is now ready to be viewed
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The outer surface of bacteria has what type of charge?
Negative
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How does a positive stain work?
Positively charged stain adheres to negatively charged bacterium therefore bacteria is coloured and background is clear
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Whats an example of a positive stain?
Crystal violet
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How does a negative stain work?
It is repelled by the negatively charged bacteria therefore bacteria appears clear and background appears coloured
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What is an example of a negative stain?
Nigrosin (black)
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What are two types of staining techniques?
Simple stains and differential stains
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How does a simple stain work? What is sometime applied
Positively charged basic dye is applied therefore bacteria appears coloured, a mordant
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What is a mordant?
Something used to increase the intensity of a stain
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What is a differential stain used for?
To differentiate different types of bacteria because the stain react differently to different types of bacteria
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What does a differential stain use to its advantage to be able to tell between cells?
It exploits differences in cells wall structure and composition
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What are 2 examples of differential stains
1. Gram stain | 2. Acid Fast stain
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What is the gram stain used to determine?
Whether a bacterium is gram positive or negative
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When doing a gram stain, how can you tell which is gram negative and which is gram positive?
Gram postive- wil hold first purple stain | Gram negative- will not hold first stain but will hold second and appear pink
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What occurs in a gram stain?
Two stains are used with a wash in between
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Acid fast stains bind closely to..?
Bacteria that contain a waxy cell wall component
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What is an acid fast stain used to identify?
All bacteria that fall within the genus Mycobacterium
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What are two examples of Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae
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What occurs in an acid fast stain?
The waxy cell wall retains the carbo fuschin die that is added (pink on blue), a counterstain methylene blue leaves tissues and non acid fast bacteria blue
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What are 'special stains' used for?
In order to visualize cell structures and specific parts of microorganisms
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What are 3 types of special stains
1. Capsular stain 2. Flagella stain 3. Endospore stain
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What does a capsular stain do?
Reveals the presence of a thick polysaccharide layer outside the bacterial cell
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What does a capsule presence indicate?
A bacterium with increased ability to cause disease
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When doing a capsule stain, the background is coloured with what type of charged stain? The bacteria?
Negative (usually black), positive (pink)
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What does the capsule look like after being dyed?
Remains colourless and appears as a halo around the bacterium
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Why must special stains be used to detect the presence of endospores?
Ordinary stains cannot penetrate the bacterial cell wall
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What occurs in an endospore stain?
Primary stain colours endospore green | A counterstain with safranin colours the rest of the cell pink
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How does a flagella stain work?
The mordant and stain together work to increase the thickness of the flagella so it can be seen under a light microscope

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