5-6 Microscope Flashcards

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Artisole made careful observations and descriptions of…

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More than 500 animal species and set up a classification system based on observations.

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Hans and Zacharias Janssen…

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Invented the microscope in 1595.

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Hans and Zacharias used…

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Ocular and Objective lenses

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Robert Hooke was using a…

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Hand microscope that had three lens system

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The illumination was a beam of light concentrated on a specimen by…

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Passing light through a water filled glass.

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Robert Hooke published his Micrographia containing…

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38 illustrations of plant, animal, and non-living objects viewed through a microscope

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Hooke discovered that the cork primarily of…

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Air pockets surrounded by a thin mesh of fibre.

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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, using only a simple…

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Single lens microscope rather like a magnifying glass.

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Van Leeuwenhoek’s drawings were called…

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Animacules

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Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope was…

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Held directly at the eye

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His microscopes had a smaller lens which…

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Provided higher magnification

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12
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Early compound microscopes…

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Were less efficient

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13
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Field of view:

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The area you see through the eye piece of a microscope.

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14
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Francesco Redi questioned…

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The belief that maggots appeared spontaneously from raw meat

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John Needham proved that living things…

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Could be produced from non-living matter

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Lazzaro Spallanzani proposed…

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That there were responsible for the new growth

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Life Forces:

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A natural force postulated to produce life spontaneous.

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Critics suggested that all Spallanzani has shown was…

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That air was required for spontaneous generation to occur

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Louis Pastuer submitted the experiment of…

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Boiling meat broth in a flask

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Robert Brown identified an important…

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Cell structure, the nucleas.

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Nucleas: (in cells)

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Organelle that contains DNA, genetic material, and directs all cellular activities

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M.J. Scgleider observed that all plants were composed of cells and he proposed…

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That the nucleas was the structure responsible for the development of the cell.

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Theodor Schwann believed that there must be…

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Similarities between plant and animal tissue

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Brown and Schlelden proposed that all plants and animal were composed of…

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Cells and that the cell was the basic unit of all organisms.

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All living things are made up of...
One or more cells and the materials produced by these cells
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All life functions take place in cells...
Making them the smallest units of life
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All cells are produced from pre-existing cells...
Through the process of cell division
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Light microscopes magnify cells through the use of...
One or more curved lenses and a light source,
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Compound light microscopes is an...
Important magnifying tool
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Research light microscopes have a maximum magnification of...
1000-2000x
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When light passes directly through cells its called a...
Bright field
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Brightfield:
Illumination in the light microscopes in which the specimen is illuminated by a unfiltered beam of white light that passes from the illumination source through the specimen into the objective, and then to the eye piece
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Scientists discovered that manipulating the light source could...
Alter the contrast between structures in the cell and improve the image
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Resolution or resolving power:
The ability to distinguish between two structures that are close together
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A microscope must provide the...
Capability to see smaller stuff
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The efficiency of light microscopes is limited because...
As light is focused into smaller and smaller diameters the image becomes blurred
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Fluorescence microscopy was invented to give information about...
Molecules on the cell service
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The fluorescent molecule emitted...
Lights of different wave lengths
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J.H Coons used anitbody molecules labelled with a fluorescent substance...
To show antigens were on the surface of cells
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Confocal Microscope:
A microscope that uses confocal technology
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Laser concentrates light onto a...
Specimen
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The reflection is passed through a tiny opening called the...
Confocal pinhole and reaches an electronic detector that converts the light into an image
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The process called dendrites that bring information to the...
Cell body of the motor neuron merely appear fibrous, but, using confocal technology
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James Hillier and Albert Prebus developed...
The first functional electron microscope
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Electron Microscope:
A microscope that uses a beam of electrons to produce images of fine detail
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The image is formed by the absorption or scattering of the electron beam because...
Electron dense materials do not let the electrons pass through.
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Electron-dense:
Characteristic of a substance that does not allow electrons to pass through it, but either absorbs or scatters the electrons
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Transmission Electron Microscope:
Depends on a beam of electrons passed through a very thin section of fixed and stained tissue embedded in plastic
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Scanning Electron Microscope:
Gives information about the surface features a specimen
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Specimens are fixed and covered with an...
Electron-dense material like gold, which reflects specimen
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One of the drawbacks of TEM is...
building a three dimensional object
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Total =
Ocular x Objective