Microscopes:
What are the key parts of a Microscope?
- Eye piece lens
- Objective lens
- Neck
- Stage
- Stage Clip
- Light Switch
- Coarse Focus Knob
- Switch
- Fine Focus Knob Base
How did you set up your Microscope and Microscope slides?
We started off getting the Microscope out and on to the table. We then got the light bulb box plugged in and faced it at an angle to make the mirror and the light make a reflection. After that we then got the microscope slides set up but putting Stain onto the specimen in the middle of the clean side then we broke a piece off of the leaf to make it turn white. After putting the leaf on the stain drops we put this light glass thing and went to the microscope to look down the lens.
What did you observe down the Microscope?
When looking down the lens we will looking at plant cells which looked something like this but brown because of the stain we used.
What are the key similarity and differences between plant and animal cells?
Plant and animal cells are nearly almost the same in different ways. For example, animal cells do not have a cell walls but plant cells do. Animal cells are mostly round and circle in shape while plant cells are rectangular shape.
What was something that you discovered?
The one important thing I learnt/discovered was how to set up a Microscope and how to identify most cells.
What are some other microscopes that are made?
- Simple Microscope. Simple microscope is the one which only uses a lens.
- Compound Microscope.
- Stereo Microscope.
- Optical Coherence Microscope. .
- Fluorescence Microscope.
- Scanning Probe Microscope.
- Point Projection Microscopes.
- Acoustic Microscopes.
