| A | B |
|---|
| abiotic | Non-living |
| biotic | living |
| lens | something that focuses rays of light |
| biogenesis | an accepted idea that all life comes from life |
| phase contrast microscope | a microscope that can study living, moving animals magnified up to 1000x |
| spontaneous generation | the belief that organisms today can arise from nonliving things |
| simple microscope | an instrument having one lens, used to observe very small objects |
| focus | to cause rays of light to come together |
| ocular | a lens on a compound microscope that enlarges the image created by a second lens beneath it |
| metabolism | the building up and breaking down activities of an organism |
| respiration | process that combines food with oxygen to release stored energy |
| electron microscope | an instrument through which an enlarged image of an object is created by passing electrons through the object |
| compound microscope | an instrument having two or more lenses, for observing very small objects |
| scanning electron microscope | a microscope that creates an enlarged image by bouncing electrons off the object viewed |
| light microscope | a type of microscope that uses rays of light to create an image |
| growth | production of new and larger cells by a living thing |
| reproduction | production of new organisms |
| organism | living thing |
| resolving power | the ability to distinguish two objects as being two distinct entities |
| image | a picture formed of an object by a lens |
