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Introduction Micropara
Introduction Micropara
Reading assignment:
1. Aberration 7. Köhler Illumination
2. Contrast 8. Mechanical tube length
3. Depth of field 9. Numerical aperture
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4. Depth of focus 10. Refractive index
5. Immersion fluid 11. Resolution
6. Working distance 12. Parfocal
SIMPLE MICROSCOPE
- A simple microscope contains a single bi-convex magnifying lens which is
thicker in the center than at the periphery.
The Janssen microscope consisted of an object lens (objective) that was placed
close to the specimen and the eye, or an ocular lens that was placed close to the 5
eye. The lenses were separated by a body tube.
- The objective lens projects a magnified image into the body tube and the
eyepiece magnifies the projected image
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THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE
- The light microscope is an instrument for visualizing fine detail of an
object. It does this by creating a magnified image through the use of a
series of glass lenses, which first focus a beam of light onto or through an
object, and convex objective lenses to enlarge the image formed.
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DARK-FIELD MICROSCOPE 8
Branches of Microbiology 14
ü Bacteriology
ü Mycology
ü Virology
ü Phycology
ü Protozoology
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Biological warfare may be defined as
intentional use of doses to harm or kill an
adversary military forces, population, food or
livestock and includes any living, or nonliving 15
organisms or its bioactive substance (toxin).
The same organism must be isolated again from the diseased host
Fannie Eilshemius Hesse – suggested the use of agar as a solidifying agent
Richard Petri – developed the petri dish (plate)
Martinus Beijerinck and Sergie Winogradsky – developed the enrichment-
culture technique and the use of selective media
TAXONOMY
Bacterial taxonomy is concerned with the naming of bacterial
organisms and with organizing these names according to various
criteria. Overall, classification involves the recognition of similarities
and relationships as a basis for the arrangement of the bacteria into 26
taxonomic groups or taxa. The basic taxon is the species.
Identification also involves the recognition of a bacterium as a
member of one of the established taxa, appropriately named, by the
comparison of a number of characters with those in the description.
3 PARTS OF TAXONOMY
- Classification
• Arrangement of organisms into groups or taxa (sing. taxum)
• Based on mutual similarity or relatedness
- Nomenclature 27
Kingdoms