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| the basic units of living organisms; all organisms are made up of these |
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| compound light microscope |
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| uses visible light and a series of lenses to magnify objects in steps; can magnify objects roughly 1500 times their original size |
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one of the fundamental ideas of modern biology;
states all organisms are made of cells; the cell is the basic unit of organization of an organism; all cells come from preexisting cells |
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| an instrument that uses a beam of electrons instead of natural light to magnify structures up to approximately 500,000 times their actual size |
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| primitive cells; these cells do not have membrane-bound organelles |
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| this type of cell contains membrane bound organelles |
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| the membrane-bound structures inside a eukaryotic cell |
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| the central membrane-bound organelle that manages cellular functions |
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