Microscopy

• Light microscope


  • Cheap
  • Portable
  • Can view live samples
  • Low magnification and resolution
• First light microscopes used

  1590's
• Electron microscope


  • Expensive
  • Need to be trained to use
  • Can only view dead samples, black and white
  • High magnification and resolution
• First electron microscopes used

  1960's
• Resolution

  The shortest distance between two objects that can be seen clearly
• Light microscopes can see the nucleus
• Electron microscopes can see internal structures like mitochondria