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Biology 1.4
Question | Answer |
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Compound light microscope | microscope that shines light through a specimen and has two lenses to magnify an image |
eyepiece | magnifies the image 10x |
objective lens | enlarges the image of the specimen |
stage | platform that supports a slide holding the specimen |
light source | light bulb that provides light for viewing the image |
magnification | the increase of an object's apparent size |
nosepiece | the structure that holds the set of objective lenses |
resolution | is the power to show details clearly in an image |
scanning electron microscope | a beam of electrons over the specimen's surface |
transmission electron microscope | a beam of electrons through a very thinly sliced specimen |
metric system | decimal system and thus is based on powers of 10 |
base unit | describes length, mass, time , and other qualities |