Which term is used to describe the smallest structure that can be seen by a light microscope?
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In practical terms, bacteria and mitochondria, which are about 500 nm (0.5 μm) wide, are generally the smallest objects whose shape can be clearly discerned in the light microscope; details smaller than this are obscured by effects resulting from the wave nature of light.
The smallest thing that we can see with a 'light' microscope is about 500 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth (that's 1,000,000,000th) of a meter. So the smallest thing that you can see with a light microscope is about 200 times smaller than the width of a hair. Bacteria are about 1000 nanometers in size .
Thus, light microscopes allow one to visualize cells and their larger components such as nuclei, nucleoli, secretory granules, lysosomes, and large mitochondria. The electron microscope is necessary to see smaller organelles like ribosomes, macromolecular assemblies, and macromolecules.
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microorganisms are the smallest structure that can be seen in microscope it is a for example bacteria