Biology with the Amoeba Sisters - Microscopes and How to Use a Light Microscope

Explore how to use a light microscope with the Amoeba Sisters! Includes microscope parts, how to use, and some helpful tips! Additionally, this video introduces a few types of light microscopes as well as electron microscopes. Expand these details for table of contents and more information. Table of Contents: 00:00 Intro 0:55 Magnification and Resolution 1:49 Light Microscopes 2:50 Electron Microscopes 3:34 Parts of a Light Microscope 5:51 Using the Light Microscope (how to focus and calculating total magnification) 7:28 Additional Microscope Tips 8:02 Clean-Up Check Our textbook reference is OpenStax, a FREE, peer reviewed, open source OpenStax biology textbook: OpenStax College Microbiology, Microbiology . OpenStax CNX. Mar 13, 2019 http://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]. Further Reading Suggestions: -Learn more about the many microscopes listed---as well as more about HOW they work---from the peer-reviewed, FREE OpenStax here: https://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]:Sryfi2lh@6/2-3-Instruments-of-Microscopy -Learn about *how* microscopes work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/mid/NIHMS363450/ -------------------- The Amoeba Sisters videos demystify science with humor and relevance. The videos center on Pinky's certification and experience in teaching biology at the high school level. Amoeba Sisters videos only cover concepts that Pinky is certified to teach, and they focus on her specialty: secondary life science. Learn more about our videos here: https://www.amoebasisters.com/our-videos ⭐ Our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/amoebasisters ❤️ Support Us? https://www.amoebasisters.com/support-us 🗂️ Resources that complement our videos! Visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b3kmAzFEjWgoMKCrkeNCKFYunWk04IuLY93jI4OY0gY/edit?usp=sharing Biology Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwL0Myd7Dk1F0iQPGrjehze3eDpco1eVz TIPS FOR VIEWING EDU YOUTUBE VIDEOS: Want to learn tips for viewing edu YouTube videos including changing the speed, language, viewing the transcript, etc? https://www.amoebasisters.com/pinkys-ed-tech-favorites/10-youtube-tips-from-an-edu-youtuber-duo MUSIC: Our intro music designed and performed by Jeremiah Cheshire. End music in this video is listed free to use/no attribution required from the YouTube audio library https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?feature=blog COMMUNITY: We take pride in our AWESOME community, and we welcome feedback and discussion. However, please remember that this is an education channel. See YouTube's community guidelines and how YouTube handles comments that are reported by the community. We also reserve the right to remove comments. TRANSLATIONS: While we don't allow dubbing of our videos, we do gladly accept subtitle translations from our community. Some translated subtitles on our videos were translated by the community using YouTube's community-contributed subtitle feature. After the feature was discontinued by YouTube, we have another option for submitting translated subtitles here: https://www.amoebasisters.com/pinkys-ed-tech-favorites/community-contributed-subtitles We want to thank our amazing community for the generosity of their time in continuing to create translated subtitles. If you have a concern about community contributed contributions, please contact us.