How do light microscopes differ from electron microscopes?

by admin on March 15, 2010

A. Light microscopes can examine living specimens; electron microscopes cannot.
B. Electron microscopes can examine living specimens; light microscopes cannot.
C. Light microscopes can magnify a specimen up to 100,000 times; electron microscopes magnify up to 1500 times.
D. Light microscopes can be used to study proteins; electron microscopes cannot.


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emucompboy March 15, 2010 at 9:06 am

Your teacher wants you to answer A.

It’s almost true. In college I wrote a paper summarizing "live mounts" for transmission electron microscopy. These did exist, but were generally unsatisfactory. Having a cathode ray shot through it tends to kill a living specimen.

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