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What are advantages to using a wet mount slide preparation? Select all that apply
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A. There are additional advantages to viewing a living specimen. C. There are additional advantages to viewing a motile specimen. D. Wet mount slide preparation allows the viewing of specimen behavior as they interact with the environment.
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Which of the three factors affecting image quality is altered by the light source?
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Contrast can be altered by light intensity and staining.
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How do the coarse and fine focus knobs work on a brightfield microscope?
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The focus knobs move the stage up and down, allowing the user to move the slide into focus.
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What is the total magnification of a specimen using the 40X objective?
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Total magnification is 400X.
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Why should the fine focus knob typically be used with the 10X and 40X objective lenses?
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Using the coarse focus knob would result in a large change in focus, when only a small change is needed.
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What is the advantage of starting with the 4X objective before moving to the 10X and then the 40X objective?
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The lower power objective has a larger field of view and is easier to focus.
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What is important to remember when using oil immersion?
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Immersion oil is required for the 100X objective lens but will damage the other lenses.
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Which side of this thermometer should be used to take metric measurements?
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right
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Why is it important to know the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit scales?
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because boilling and freezing water occur at very different values on each scale
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Which side of this ruler should be used to take metric measurements?
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right
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Where do you need to orient your eye level to take an accurate reading of the meniscus?
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exactly parrallel to the meniscus
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How are you going to determine if iodine and/or starch diffuse across the dialysis tubing?
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If both starch and iodine are able to diffuse across the dialysis tubing they would mix on both sides of the membrane turning both solutions dark purple. if only iodine is able to diffuse across the membrane the solution in the dialysis tubing bag will look dark look.