Appreciating the Process of Distinguishing Organelles Flashcards

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When looking at a prepared sample (e.g. a cell or a group of cells) under a microscope, you can sometimes see things that aren’t actually part of the specimen
These are known as

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artefacts

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Artefacts can be a variety of things, such as:

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dust
air bubbles
fingerprints

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These artefacts often occur during the preparation of a sample how does this occur

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During preparation, a sample is often squashed or stained, which can generate artefacts

The occurrence of artefacts can be decreased by more careful preparation of samples

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Artefacts are common in which microscope and why

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Artefacts are common in electron micrographs (especially in samples prepared for viewing using a transmission electron microscope) due to the lengthy treatment required to prepare samples

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This was particularly problematic for early research by scientists using the first electron microscopes

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To distinguish between artefacts and organelles, they had to repeatedly prepare a specimen in different ways, using different techniques

If they saw a particular object in a specimen prepared using one preparation technique, but not another, the object was more likely to be an artefact than an organelle

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