Biology 1st Edition by Jung Choi, Jean DeSaix, Yael Avissar, Vladimir Jurukovski, Robert Wise,Connie Rye, OpenStax

Exercise 23

In your everyday life, you have probably noticed that certain instruments are ideal for certain situations. For example, you would use a spoon rather than a fork to eat soup because a spoon is shaped for scooping, while soup would slip between the tines of a fork. The use of ideal instruments also applies in science. In what situation(s) would the use of a light microscope be ideal, and why?