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Cells of Life
microscope
Question | Answer |
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Holds the slide in place, letting the light pass through it. | Eyepiece |
Adjusts the position of the lenses so that the object can be seen clearly: can be course or fine. | Objective lens |
Light travels through it to the eyepiece lens | Focus knob |
Controls the amount of light passing through the object | Base |
Supports the microscope | Mirror |
Reflects light up through the slide into the lenses | Stage |
Used to locate specimen, then get different magnifications | 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 waste 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 cells 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 |