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Microscope
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Holds the slide in place, letting light pass through it. | eyepiece |
| Adjusts the position of the lenses 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 amount of light passing through it | base |
| Supports the microscope | mirror |
| Reflex the light up through the slide into the lenses | stage |
| Used to locate specimen, then get different magnafications. | diaphragm |
| Enables you to see magnified specimen | microscope tube |
| A thin boundary around the cell that keeps things inside the cell, lets some needed things into the cell, and lets wastes leaves | cell membrane |
| A very thin boundary around the nucleus of the cell | nulear membrane |
| A storage area of the cell that is full of fluid | Vacuoles |
| Little round parts of cells that make chemicals called proteins, which are neeed so that we can survive and grow | ribosomes |
| Long thread-like bodiesinthe nucleus of the cell that carry all the information we get from our parents | chromosomes |
| cytoplasm | Living jelly-like material inside a cell;supplies energy to the cell |