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When you want to look at things you couldn't with a light microscope.

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What is a SEM microscope?

A SEM microscope is a scanning electron microscope


Which type of microscope would be best to use if you wanted to look at a nucleus inside a living cell?

A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).


What type of microscope would be best to use to look at different cells or organelles?

scanning electron microscope


What are the differences and similarities between light TEM and SEM microscopes?

a TEM microscope privides an detailed image of the inside of a specimen a SEM microscope provides a 3D image of a specimen take for exampel a sperm in a TEM microscope you would see the inner stucture of the sperm in a SEM microscope you would se in detail the exact form shape of the sperm


How can you see a chromosome?

You would need a scanning electron microscope (SEM)


Why cant individual chromosomes be seem with microscope?

You can not use a regular compound microscope, you need a scanning electron microscope (SEM) as they are too small.


What type of microscope can produce three - dmensional images of a cell's surface?

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)


Which type of microscope would be used to observe structures on the surface of an individual cell?

Sem


The nucleus of a cell can be viewed through what kind of microscope?

An Electron Microscope is used to study the contents of a nucleus.


What microscope creates an image of the surface?

SEM


Which microscope can be linked to an X-ray analyzer?

SEM, scanning electron microscope


What is a 3 letter word for a type of microscope?

SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)