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Ch 03 Microscope Flashcards

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How is Robert Hooke’s invention related to Joseph Lister’s invention?

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The compound lens and microscope

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Was was van Leeuwenhoek’s invention?

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Single lens 300X microscope

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What is the advantage to oil immersion lenses?

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Oil immersion lenses corrects the refractive index of glass which is a problem at high magnification.

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Which lens is the occular and which is the objective?

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Ocular: lens nearest the eye
Objective: lens nearest the slide

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What is a smear?

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A thin film of material containing the microbe to be studied under a microscope

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What is a mordant?

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A chemical added to the smear to intensify the stain

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What devices focus light and electron microscopes?

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Light - lenses

Electron - magnets

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What is a chromophore?

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Part of the molecule that reflects wavelengths back to the eye

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What is Carolus Linnaeus contribution to science?

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Developed two-part naming system

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What is Robert Whitaker’s contribution to science?

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Founded the five kindom system in which prokaryotes were placed in the prokaryote kindom

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What is serology?

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The study of blood serum and other bodily fluids

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Which microscope is used to look at spirochetes?

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Darkfield

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What is the maximum resolving power and magnification of light and electron microscopes?

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Light: 0.2 um, 2,000X
2D EM: 10 pm, 100,000X
3D EM: 10 nm, 10,000X

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What is a simple stain?

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Water or alcohol and dye

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What can be used to improve the bonding between a simple stain and the specimen?

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A modrant

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In Two-Photon microscopy, what kind of dye is used?

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Fluorescent dye

17
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In Scanning Acoustic Microscopy, what is the medium used?

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Sound waves

18
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What kind of images do Scanning-tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy yeild?

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3D

19
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Name two differential stains

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Gram stain: violet, iodine, alcohol decolorizer, red

Acid-Fast stain: acid-fast microbes for red,
non-acid fast methylene blue counterstain

20
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What stain is used to make capsules visible?

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Special stains

21
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What stain is used to make endospore visible?

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Special stains

22
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A cell is stained because of __________?

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ionic interaction

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