Intro to Microscopy Flashcards
Describe how a light microscope works?

Knurled Head Locking Screw


The Specimen Holder/Stage


Light Intensity Control Knob


Abbe Condenser


Revolving Nose Pieces and Objective Lenses


Widefield Eyepiece
Interpupillary Scale


Course Focus and Fine Focus Knob


Knurled Diopeter Ring


Knobs Controlling the Mechanical Stage


Identify Basic Features of Cells and Tissues

Cytoplasm vs. Cytosol

Identify the Tissue, The Microscopy, the outlined green, and the blue arrows


Approximate the number of cells.
Identify the Blue Arrows?
Green Outline?


Identify the green brackets
Identify the yellow Arrows
What type of microscopy?


What are the 4 major steps of slide preparation?

Explain the Process of Tissue Fixation

Explain Chemical Fixation

Explain the process of Embedding

Explain the process of sectionig

Explain the Process of Staining

Hematoxylin vs. Eosin

What type of stain is this?
What type of Tissue?
Nucleus vs. Proteins in staining


What type of staining is this?
Explain Cytoplasmic Basophillia.


What type of stain?
What are the green arrows?


What type of stain?
What comprises the outlined the region and why?


What type of stain?
Why the color?


What type of stain?
Identify heterochromatin and Euchromatin.
Red Arrow


Explain Periodic and Acid Schiff

What type of stain?
What gets stained?


Identify the clear protions of these stains
Describe what they are generally and point to them specifically.


Identify The black Arrow?
The Blue Arrow?
Describe the pink space between.


Shrinkage and Artifacts


What type of Stain?
Green Arrows?


What type of stain?
Identify the Blue and Black Arrows.

