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feild of veiw

circular feild seen when looking through the ocular lens of a microscope
total magnfication

combination of the eyepeice times the magnification of the objective
working distance

distance between the specimen (slide) and the objective
longitude sections

section that is cut along the long axis of a structure
cross section

transverse cut through a structure, tissue, or speciman
whole mount

placing a whole organism or speciman on a slide for microscopic examination
wet mount
- used for microscopic examination of livin tissue or cell
Steps to prepeare a wet mount
- a. Place
- specimen on a blank slide
- b. Add a drop of
- H2O
- c. Slowly lower
- d cvr slip frm 1 side of d H2O drop so any air bubbles will b pushed out as d cvr
- slip cms down.
monomers

chains of smaller molecules
polymers

complex molecules
dehydration synthesis
- the loss of water molecule between each polymer
- (builds)
Hydrolysis
- addition of water between each pair of monemorrs
- (breaks down)
monosachrides

simplest of the carohydrates
disaccharides

two monosacchrides linked together
Starch

a polysaccharide consisting of glucose
triglycerides
- largest class of lipids
- composed of fatty acid and glycerol
Hypotonic
- More solution on the outside than the inside.
- Soulution goes in the thing
- Gets larger
Hypertonic
- More soulution in the inside
- Solution goes out.
- It gets shriveled
- Hyotonic in the blood
- Blood burst
- Hemolysis
- Solution goes in the blood
- Hypertonic in the blood
- More solution inside
- Crenation
- Shriveles up
Turgor
- Lots of water in the cell
- Pushes up against cell wall
plasmolysis

Not much water in cell
Adhesive
- Water sticking to other things
- Causing the meniscus
cohesive
- water sticking to each other
- causing the surface tension

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