4 Creatures You Can See With Your Own Microscope!

submitted by Huzzaz on 07/29/19 1

You might have been one of those lucky people that had a microscope to tinker with as a kid. But if you missed out on that, it’s not too late! If you’re interested in making your very own foray into the world of microscopy, here are four creatures you might be able to spot with a home microscope -- and what they can teach us! Check out Journey to the Microcosmos here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Intro: www.cas.miamioh.edu/mbiws/microscopes/compoundscope.html www.ccmr.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/03/Reading_-How-do-the-lenses-in-a-microscope-work_.pdf Giardia: www.cdc.gov/parasites/giardia/pathogen.html www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341118/ web.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2003/Giardia/GIARDIA2.htm www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012800049600247X Rotifers: ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/rotifera/rotifera.html www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=52520.php onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.201900658 www.researchgate.net/publication/332060863_FULL_PAPER_wwwafm-journalde_Rotibot_Use_of_Rotifers_as_Self-Propelling_Biohybrid_Microcleaners [PDF] Amoebas: www.livescience.com/54281-amoeba-definition.html www.genengnews.com/news/gut-nibbling-amoeba-evades-detection-hannibal-lecter-style/ mbio.asm.org/content/10/2/e00068-19?_ga=2.59637997.1708836469.1558615056-761762436.1558615056 Volvox: www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec03/volvox.html phys.org/news/2019-01-algae-eye.html bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-018-0613-5 blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2017/11/28/unicellular-to-multicellular-what-can-the-green-alga-volvox-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-multicellularity-and-cellular-differentiation/ bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0450-y www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/momentous-transition-multicellular-life-may-not-have-been-so-hard-after-all phys.org/news/2014-07-transgender-algae-reveal-evolutionary-sexes.html journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001904 science.sciencemag.org/content/329/5988/223.abstract www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/volvox-chlamydomonas-and-the-evolution-of-multicellularity-14433403 Image Sources: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giardia_lamblia_SEM_8698_lores.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giardia-spp.--infected--gerbil-intestine.jpg www.istockphoto.com/vector/stomach-gm629996098-112267511 www.istockphoto.com/photo/antibody-immunoglobulin-molecule-background-gm1025362538-275065150 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amoeba_(Am%C3%B6be)_01.jpg phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=22073 phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=16242 www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-rotifer-under-the-microscopic-view-for-education-gm1132162770-300021942 www.videoblocks.com/video/rain-water-coming-down-a-spout-from-a-residential-house-maghfzv commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bdelloidea1_w.jpg www.istockphoto.com/photo/freshwater-zooplankton-rotifer-or-rotifera-euchlanis-gm612270124-105447651 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brachionus_plicatilis.jpg www.flickr.com/photos/picksfromoutthere/35891780782 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volvox_Aureus_400x.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chlamydomonas_TEM_07.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Text-book_of_comparative_anatomy_(1898)_(14592367747).jpg www.istockphoto.com/photo/chlamydomonas-sp-algae-under-microscopic-view-gm1096108786-294293416 www.istockphoto.com/photo/overhead-projector-gm173041322-7370833 www.istockphoto.com/photo/preparing-a-specimen-holder-and-probe-pins-of-a-microscope-in-the-laboratory-cleanroom-gm965466526-263479202 phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=11648

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