microscopy

Question 1

microscopes let us…

Answer 1

see things we cant see with the naked eye.

Question 2

light microscopes

Answer 2

use light and lenses to form an image of a specimen and magnify it. let us see individual cells and large subcellular structures, like nuclei

Question 3

electron microscopes

Answer 3

use electrons instead of light to form an image. much higher magnification than light microscopes. higher resolution. let us see much smaller things in more detail, like ribosomes or plasmids

Question 4

formula for magnification

Answer 4

magnification = image size / real size