Technologies to Study Cell Structure (HSC SSCE Biology): Flashcards

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Compound microscope structure

Two convex lenses at opposite ends of barrel

Scientist who named cells (1660s)

Robert Hooke

Light microscope: max magnification

Up to 1500×1500 \times

Light microscope: resolution

200 nm200 \text{ nm}

What magnification measures

How much larger image appears vs actual object

What resolution measures

Ability to distinguish two separate objects

Electron microscope uses

Electron beam & electromagnets (not light & lenses)

TEM: image type & resolution

2D images, 2 nm2 \text{ nm} resolution

SEM: image type

3D surface images

Living specimens in electron microscopes

No - vacuum required

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