Microscopy

• What do light microscopes use?

  Light and lenses to form an image of a specimen and magnify they let us see individual cells and large subcellular structures like nuclei
• What do electron microscopes use?

  Electrons to form an image
• Electron microscopes have a much higher magnification than light
• Electron microscopes have a much higher resolution than light
• What is the formula for calculating magnification?

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  I M magnification = image size / real size