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help1007685
Aug 26, 2008, 08:34 PM
When using an up to date microscope to examine animal cells what won't you be able to detect?

Solaxys
Aug 26, 2008, 09:34 PM
Any processes in the cell, or movement of the cells.

asking
Aug 26, 2008, 10:08 PM
Depends on the microscope. Probably won't see ribosomes if it's a high school light microscope. But "an up to date microscope" could be a really high power scope, a electron microscope. I'd assume it was a light microscope you'd find in a high school lab. In that case, there's lots you wouldn't see--cytoskeleton. It would make more sense to ask what you CAN see.

I've seen this question over and over. I am a biologist, worked in labs for years, have no idea what the person who wrote the question is getting at. There's some "right" answer.