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What is an electron microscope?
It is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons to magnify specimens up to about 2000,000 times
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How have electron microscopes been helpful to scientists?
Electron microscopes also produce very clear images and have helped us to discover much more detailed structure of cells
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What are the disadvantages of a light microscope?
It shows that bacteria do not have a nuclei
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What does the electron microscope show in a bacteria?
It shows us that bacterial cells contain two types of DNA - chromosomal DNA and plasmid DNA
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What is a chromosomal DNA?
It is a giant loop of DNA containing most of the genetic material - it is not clearly packaged like plant or human chromosomes
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What is a plasmid DNA?
It comes in small loops and carries extra information
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In bacteria, what is the flagella?
Some bacteria have an flagellum on the outside of the cell - these are long, whip-like structures that bacteria can use to move themselves along
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