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Represents Biology   Microscope  
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Came from the Greek words "micros" (small) and "skopein" (to look at)   Microscope  
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The unit structure   Cell  
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The enlargement of an object viewed   Magnification  
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Eyepiece & objectives   Magnification  
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Condition where the smallest distance between two points on a specimen that can still be distinguished as two separate entities   Resolution  
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Gives a detailed structure/ appearance   Resolution  
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When is the first use of lenses to manipulate images was in Greek and Roman writings?   1000 AD  
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When did Hans and Zacharias Janssen make the first microscope by placing two lenses in a tube?   1590  
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Who were the Dutch lens makers who made the first microscope by placing two lenses in a tube?   Hans and Zacharias Janssen (brothers)  
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How did Hans and Zacharias Janssen made the first microscope?   By placing two lenses in a tube  
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When did Robert Hooke discovered and named the cell?   1665  
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The father of microscopy   Robert Hooke  
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Who is The first to describe and coin the phrase "cell" when observing slice of cork using a microscope power of 30x?   Robert Hooke  
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Saw compartments in the cell   Robert Hooke  
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When did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek used a simple microscope to describe a bacteria?   1675  
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First to described a bacteria   Anton Van Leeuwenhoek  
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Most powerful microscope   Electron microscope  
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When did Joseph Jackson Lister reduce spherical aberration or the "chromatic effect" for a good magnification w/o blurring the image?   1830  
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Reduced spherical aberration or the "chromatic effect" for a good magnification w/o blurring the image   Joseph Jackson Lister  
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Made the prototype for the compound microscope   Joseph Jackson Lister  
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When did Ernst Abbe made a formula that provides calculation to allow possibility in the maximum resolution in microscopes?   1872  
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Made a formula that provides calculation to allow possibility in the maximum resolution in microscopes   Ernst Abbe  
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When did Richard Zsigmondy develop the ultra microscope that could study objects below the wavelength of light?   1903  
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developed the ultra microscope that could study objects below the wavelength of light   Richard Zsigmondy  
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Shortest and coldest wavelength   Red  
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Longest and hottest wavelength   Blue  
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When did Frits Zernike invented the phase contrast microscope   1930  
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Who invented the phase contrast microscope that allowed for the study of colorless and transparent biological materials?   Frits Zernike  
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The color of the human cell   Colorless  
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Method used to give color to our cell because our cell is colorless   Staining Method  
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The time where technical innovations improved microscopes, leading to microscopy becoming popular among scientists   18th century  
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When did Ernst Ruska co-invented the electron microscope   1931  
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Co-invented the electron microscope for which he won the Nobel prize in Physics In 1986.   Ernst Ruska  
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A microscope that depends on electrons rather than light to view an object, electrons are speeded up in a vacuum until their wavelength is extremely short, only one hundred thousandth that of white light   Electron Microscope  
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Microscope that makes possible of viewing objects as small as the diameter of an atom   Electron microscope  
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Smallest particle   Atom  
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Microscopes that depend on light source   Compound Microscope  
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Microscopes that use electricity as light   Electron microscope  
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When did Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope?   1981  
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Invented the scanning tunneling microscope that gives 3D images of objects down to the atomic level.   Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer  
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Strongest microscope to date   Scanning tunneling microscope  
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What are the two types of electron microscope?   Transmission EM & Scanning EM  
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