BIOL 100 Midterm: Study guide exam 1
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Compound microscope: use when viewing objects much smaller than those with dissecting microscope: arm: supports stage & condenser, course adjustment: focuses on overall specimen, fine adjustment: clear focus on minute details, ocular lenses: sit on top of scope 10x, objective lenses: sit on rotating metal disk called turret 4x, 10x, 40x, 100x, condenser: under the stage, focuses light onto specimen, iris diaphragm: on condenser, controls amount of light passing through specimen, light intensity adjustment: located on arm, adjusts intensity of light coming from base. Eukaryotes: plants, animals, fungi, protists: dna, plasma membrane, cytoplasm, ribosomes, cell wall, nucleus: location of dna, mitochondria: site of cellular respiration, endoplasmic reticulum: workbench for protein assembly, golgi bodies: exports newly made proteins to their specific destination, lysosome: sac that digests waste material, organelles: specialized sub unit of the cell dedicated to a specific task & separates from rest of cell by its own membrane (all of above organelles)
