The small curved rotating micro-organism is a bacterium. The preparation has large numbers of large sulphur bacteria as well as many other kinds. The one you refer to is stuck to the cover slip by it's flagellum. Most bacterial flagella are too thin to be resolved by ordinary light microscopy.
It's actually very big. A 40x dry phase contrast objective was used and final magnification on the screen may be about 1800x but that's only a guess. I can do some measurements on the YouTube screen I suppose but have not bothered so far.
I think its Hawt
secretring97 1 year ago
Awesome microscope
DANmakuFailure 2 years ago
Sulphur spirilla
EDFWilliams 3 years ago
Why ugly? I think she's cute. R those spirochetes?
Adams42 3 years ago
is that little green guy on the left spinning a flagellum? If he is, he ain't getting too much propulsion out of it.
CHAS1422 3 years ago
The small curved rotating micro-organism is a bacterium. The preparation has large numbers of large sulphur bacteria as well as many other kinds. The one you refer to is stuck to the cover slip by it's flagellum. Most bacterial flagella are too thin to be resolved by ordinary light microscopy.
EDFWilliams 3 years ago
great clip! I even like the dancing flagellates surrounding the amoeba...
twothlesswonder 3 years ago
Those slightly helical things are bacteria. Magnification is at least 1800X on the YouTube screen.
EDFWilliams 3 years ago
Holy shit! That's one small amoeba. The ones I'm use to seeing are waaay bigger.
Is this done with oil immersion?
twothlesswonder 3 years ago
It's actually very big. A 40x dry phase contrast objective was used and final magnification on the screen may be about 1800x but that's only a guess. I can do some measurements on the YouTube screen I suppose but have not bothered so far.
EDFWilliams 3 years ago