Combined Science Biology B1 - Microscopy

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What do microscopes do?
Let us see things that we can't see with the naked eye
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Light microscopes
Use light and lenses to form an image of a specimen and magnify it
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What can you see through a light microscope?
Individual cells and large subcellular structures e.g nuclei
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Electron microscopes
Use electrons instead of light to form an image
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What are the features of an electron microscope compared to a light microscope?
Higher magnification and resolution (sharper image)
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What can you see through an electron microscope?
Much smaller things in detail e.g internal structures of mitochondria and chloroplasts. They let us see tinier things e.g ribosomes and plasmids
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FORMULA FOR MAGNIFICATION
Magnification = image size / real size
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Image size =
Magnification x real size
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Real size =
Image size / magnification
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Use light and lenses to form an image of a specimen and magnify it

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Light microscopes

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Individual cells and large subcellular structures e.g nuclei

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Use electrons instead of light to form an image

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Higher magnification and resolution (sharper image)

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