Microscopes
Microscopes
Microscopes
100

use combination lenses and mirror to illuminate thin specimens

compound light microscopes and bright field microscopes

100

one of the failures still of fluorescent microscopy and the other microscopes

still could not see or identify specimens as small as a virus or DNA molecure

100
Both extremely expensive and must be used in a vacuum chamber

SEM/ TEM

200

maximum magnification was around 1000 times, due to limited resolution

compound light microscopes or bright field micropscopes

200

these microscope solved the issue of viewing tiny specimens such as virus and DNA molecules

The transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning electron microscopes (SEM)

200

Vacuum chamber with chemically preserved specimens required to prevent....

electrons from scattering in the air

300

refocuses bent light, the image can be much clearer

Phase contrast microscopes

300

A stream of electrons is emitted instead of light with this microscope

TEM and SEM

300

cannot be used for live speciments

TEMs and SEMs  (because of the vacuum chambers and chemicals)

400

made it easier to see same color organelles

fluorescent microscopy

400

requires thin slices of sample to provide a cross-section view

(TEM) Transmission Electron microscope

500

requires the process of staining certain structures in a cell with fluorescent proteins and shining a laser on them

Fluorescent microospy

500

Provdes 3D images by scanning their services

SEMs