Microscopes - pros and cons
- Created by: jaaaz_v
- Created on: 21-09-15 19:01
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- Microscopes
- Light Microscope
- Light is passed through thin specimens to produce images
- Advantages
- Images in colour
- Cheap
- Easy
- Disadvantages
- Low magnification
- Low resolution
- 2D colour images
- Transmission Electron Microscopes
- Electrons pass through the specimen and form an image
- Advantages
- High magnification
- High resolution
- Disadvantages
- Black and white images
- Expensive
- Training is required
- Scanning Electron Microscope
- Electrons are reflected off the specimen to produce a 3D image
- Advantages
- High magnification
- High resolution
- Disadvantages
- Black and white
- Expensive
- Need training
- Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope
- Where electrons are used to form images
- Advantages
- High resolution
- High magnification
- Can produce 3D images
- Disadvantages
- Cannot be used on live specimens
- Light Microscope
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