Biology - light microscope

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Biology - light microscope

Advantages

  • Cheap
  • Small and portable
  • Both living and dead specimens can be used
  • Preparation is relatively quick
  • Unaffected by magnetic fields

Disadvantages

  • Only magnifies objects by 1500x
  • Preparation may distort the specimen
  • Field of View is restricted
  • Resolving power for biological specimens is around 1nm
  • Lower resolution and magnification than electron microscope

Evaluation

The light microscope is good for beginners and students because they are simple, cheap and easy to use, however, scientists may prefer to use the electron microscope (see table for that). However, they do not produce images as good as the electron microscope

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