Microscopes Flashcards

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1
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Tools used to enlarge images of small objects so as they can be studied.

A

Microscopes

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2
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Historians credit the invention of the microscope to which Dutch spectacle makers? Around what year?

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Hans and Zacharias Janssen; 1590

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3
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Most of the documented works of the time of the creation of the first compound microscope are credited to the likes of whom?

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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
and Robert Hooke

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4
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Instrument containing two lenses, which
magnifies, and a variety of knobs to resolve
(focus) the picture

A

Compound Light Microscope

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5
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ability to make smaller objects look
larger in contrast to their original sizes

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Magnification

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6
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capability of a system to distinguish
details in a sample being viewed

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Resolution

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7
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depends on the distance between two distinguishable points in a field of vision

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Resolution

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8
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how we detect an object against a
background

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Contrast

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9
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relative difference in the light intensity
between the image and the background it has

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Contrast

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10
Q

Light microscopes discussed in the LG

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Brightfield Microscope
Dark field Microscope
Phase contrast
Differential interference contrast
Fluorescence
Confocal
Two-photon

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11
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Creates an image by means of
directing light from a light source to
the sample or specimen being
observed

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Brightfield Microscope

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12
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most commonly
used type of microscope

A

Brightfield Microscope

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13
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uses
two or more lenses that produces a
dark image in a light background

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Brightfield Microscope

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14
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works like a brightfield microscope but has a modification in the part called the condenser

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Dark field Microscope

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15
Q

A darkfield microscope works like a
brightfield microscope but has a modification in the part called the

A

condenser

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16
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shows a bright specimen on a dark background

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Dark field Microscope

17
Q

Types of electron microscopes

A

transmission electron microscope and the
scanning electron microscope

18
Q

Used in studying inner morphology
of samples

A

Transmission Electron Microscopes

19
Q

requires ultra thin slices of samples and then stained with metals like gold or palladium

A

Transmission Electron Microscopes

20
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Used to study surfaces of samples

A

Scanning Electron Microscopes

21
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shows the overall surface of our
specimen

A

Scanning Electron Microscopes

22
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This is the platform on which the microscope slide rests and the clamp that secures the slide

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Mechanical stage

23
Q

control the stage front to back and the slide from side to side

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Mechanical stage control knobs (x-y control knobs)

24
Q

This adjusts the intensity of light
reaching the specimen under focus

A

Iris diaphragm

25
Q

Enumerate the three lens systems utilized in microscopes

A

Eyepiece (ocular)
Objectives
Condenser

26
Q

Lens system with magnification of 10X

A

Eyepiece (ocular)

27
Q

Enumerate the four objectives and their magnification

A
  1. Scanner - 4x
  2. Low power - 10x
  3. High power - 40x
    4 .Oil immersion - 100X
28
Q

gathers and conducts the light to the specimen

A

Condenser

29
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located on both sides of the microscope

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Focusing knobs

30
Q

adjustment knob that moves the stage up and down

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coarse adjustment knob

31
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adjustment knob when focusing on a specimen under the 40X or 100X objective

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fine adjustment knob

32
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Holds the objective lenses

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Nosepiece

33
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