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Mitochondria are visible as a granular background in mitochondria-rich cells, but are too small to be seen individually. Each individual ribosomes is too small to see. They are also much smaller than mitochondria.

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resolution of a light microscope is too small to see ribosomes

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electron microscopes have more resolving power than light microscopes

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