BISC 261 Exam Questions and answers with complete solutions Latest Updated 2025 |
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What is microscopy? - ✔️✔️* manipulating light waves in a specific way
What is 1 centimeter (cm) equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-2 meter
* minos are this size
* you can still see them
What is 1 millimeter (mm) equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-3 meter
* nematodes
* need a dissection microscope
What is 1 micrometer equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-6 meters
* need higher microscopes
What is 1 nanometer (nm) equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-9 meter
* major protein complexes have diameter of 13 nm
* size of amino acids
What is 1 Angstrom equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-10 meters
* size of a hydrogen atom
* 10 angstrom in a nanometer (nm)
What do Bacteria & Archaea have? - ✔️✔️* the same size
Amplitude - ✔️✔️* the height of each peak
Wavelength - ✔️✔️* the distance between peaks
, - the longer the wavelength, the lower the frequency
- the higher the frequency, the more energy imbedded in the wavelength
Frequency - ✔️✔️* the number of wavelengths in a specific time period
What are waves composed of? - ✔️✔️* peaks (highs) & troughs (lows)
What is light made up of? - ✔️✔️* photons
- can be both waves & particles
- have properties of waves
What do you know when you see nanometer? - ✔️✔️* how for apart a wavelength is in the visible lightspectrum
Does 400nm or 700nm have more energy? - ✔️✔️* 400nm
What does ultra & infrared mean? - ✔️✔️* above & below
What is light? - ✔️✔️* a physical thing
- we can manipulate, bend, & isolate individual colors
What do microscopes do to light? - ✔️✔️* bend & focus it
Convex Lenses - ✔️✔️* bends/curves outward
- light is bent inward & focused at a specific point
- eyes are convex lenses
Concave Lenses - ✔️✔️* bend inward
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What is microscopy? - ✔️✔️* manipulating light waves in a specific way
What is 1 centimeter (cm) equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-2 meter
* minos are this size
* you can still see them
What is 1 millimeter (mm) equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-3 meter
* nematodes
* need a dissection microscope
What is 1 micrometer equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-6 meters
* need higher microscopes
What is 1 nanometer (nm) equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-9 meter
* major protein complexes have diameter of 13 nm
* size of amino acids
What is 1 Angstrom equal to? - ✔️✔️* 10^-10 meters
* size of a hydrogen atom
* 10 angstrom in a nanometer (nm)
What do Bacteria & Archaea have? - ✔️✔️* the same size
Amplitude - ✔️✔️* the height of each peak
Wavelength - ✔️✔️* the distance between peaks
, - the longer the wavelength, the lower the frequency
- the higher the frequency, the more energy imbedded in the wavelength
Frequency - ✔️✔️* the number of wavelengths in a specific time period
What are waves composed of? - ✔️✔️* peaks (highs) & troughs (lows)
What is light made up of? - ✔️✔️* photons
- can be both waves & particles
- have properties of waves
What do you know when you see nanometer? - ✔️✔️* how for apart a wavelength is in the visible lightspectrum
Does 400nm or 700nm have more energy? - ✔️✔️* 400nm
What does ultra & infrared mean? - ✔️✔️* above & below
What is light? - ✔️✔️* a physical thing
- we can manipulate, bend, & isolate individual colors
What do microscopes do to light? - ✔️✔️* bend & focus it
Convex Lenses - ✔️✔️* bends/curves outward
- light is bent inward & focused at a specific point
- eyes are convex lenses
Concave Lenses - ✔️✔️* bend inward
