Microscopy

• What is magnification? 


  image size / real size
• what are light microscopes

  use light lenses to form an image of a specimen and magnify it.
• what do light microscopes let us see

  individual cells and large subcellular structures like nuclei
• what are electron microscopes

  use electrons to form an image, have high magnification, high resolution
• what do electron microscopes let us see

  smaller things in more detail - ribosomes, plasmids