The Microscope

An Introduction to the Laboratory
There are a number of general rules that the Biology Department expects to be followed when you are in the Laboratories:
• Do not eat or drink in the laboratory
• Report all spills and accidents to your demonstrator immediately
• Always wash your hands at the end of a laboratory
• Upon completion of laboratory exercises, place all materials in the area or container designated by your demonstrator
• Leave the lab clean and organized at the end of each lab period.

A microscope is a precision instrument and an essential tool in the study of cells, tissues, and minute organisms. It must be handled and used carefully at all time.
Or :- is a designed to make objects visible that are to difficult or to small to see with the unaided eye.
There are two type of microscope can be study in this laboratory :-
1- Light (Compound ) microscope.
2- Stereo (Dissecting ) microscope.

Parts of the light microscope and its function:- figure -1-
1- The base :- rest on the table and act as a stand for the microscope and houses the lamp- and a light switch.