Microscopy and cells

What dictates a molecule's solubility in water?

How do lipids behave in water?

How do proteins behave in water?

Can molecules be resolved by any microscope?

How can molecules be detected and quantified?

How is the concentration of an enzyme measured?

What is a metabolic pathway?

What is the Beer-Lambert law?

How can the Beer-Lambert law be used to calculate enzyme activity?

Describe the cytoskeleton.

Which enzyme acts on NADH?

List some differences between plant and animal cells.

Aqueous compartments in cells include...

The vast majority of a cell's components are...

Polymers are important in cells in what 3 ways?

What is the main component of cells?

What makes H2O a liquid even though other molecules of its size (e.g. NH3) are gases?

To increase the size of an image, one must...

The light microscope resolves details as small as...

List 3 requirements for viewing cells using a light microscope.

What is dark field microscopy?

How are slides prepared?

How does fluorescence microscopy work?

What is confocal microscopy?

What is resolution and what are the units?

Why are higher resolutions achievable in electron microscopy than light microscopy?

What is the calculation for magnification?

Looking at an image to work out magnification, how does one do it?

How is the wavelength adjusted in electron microscopy?

How are specimens produced for electron microscopy?

What is positive and negative staining in electron microscopy?

What is an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM)?

What is the advantage of critical drying over evaporation?

Give examples of structures that electron microscopy can resolve that light microscopy can't.

Give the range of the average size of eukaryotic cells.

What is the average size of a prokaryotic cell?