Microscopes

• Light microscope

  • High magnification low resolution
• Transmission electron microscope (TEM)

  • High resolution
  • How organelles in cell are structured
  • Beam of electrons shot at sample, detects those that go through to the other side
• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

  • High energy beam of electrons which reflect off the surface of structures
  • 3D image does not have to be thin