Microscope

Microscopic stuff

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Objective lenses

Different magnifications

Condenser

Hole at bottom of stage tghat helps condense light into very tight beam

Slide adjustment knobs

Moves slide through stage

Disc diaphragm

Controls width of circle of light and therefore amount of light passing through the specimen

Notes before setting up

Always begin examining slides with scanning power objective and do so very close to the slides

Notes before setting up

Always begin examining slides with scanning power objective and do so very close to the slides

Erythrocytes

No nucleus, look clear in the middle, Red Blood Cell

Leukocytes

White blood cells are larger and less numerous than erythrocytes, defend body from pathogens

Thrombocytes

Platelets, helps us from our blood clotting