Chapter 1.4 Flashcards
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Microscope
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a device that produces magnified images of structures that are too small to see with the unaided eye
2
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Compound Light Microscope
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a microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image
3
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Electron Microscope
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a microscope that forms an image by focusing beams of electrons onto a specimen
4
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Cell Culture
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a group of cells grown in a nutrient solution from a single cell original cell
5
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Cell Fractionation
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a technique in which cells are broken into pieces and the different cell parts are separated
6
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Metric System
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a decimal system of measurement based on certain physical standards and scaled on multiples of 10
