click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Cells of life
Microscope
Question | Answer |
---|---|
holds the side in place, letting light pass through it. | Eyepiece |
Adjusts the position of the lences so that the object can be seen clearly: can be coarse or fine | Objective lens |
Light travels through it to the eyepiece lens | focus knob |
Controls the admount of light passing through the object | base |
Supports the microscope | mirror |
Reflects light up through the silde into the lenses | stage |
Used to locate specimen, then get a different magnifications | diaphragm |
Enables you to see magnified specimen | microscope tube |
A thin boundary around the cell that keeps things inside, lets some needed things into the cell, and lets wastes leave | cell membrane |
A very thin boundary around the nucleus of the cell | nuclear membrane |
A storage area of the cell that is full of fluid | vacuole |
little round parts of the cell that make chemicals called proteins, which are needed so that we can survive and grow | ribosomes |
long thread- like bodies in the nucleus of the cell that carry all the imformation we get from our parents | chromosomes |
living jelly- like matrial inside a cell, whitch is continually moving | cytoplasm |
controls the activities of the cell | nucleus |
the powerhouse of the cell: supplies engergy | mitochondrion |