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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

Give three examples of materials that are birefringent.

Back (Answer)

Quartz Sapphires Calcite Ice

Front (Question)

What is meant by birefringent? 2

Back (Answer)

A material that refracts light in two directions - double refraction This causes a double vision effect

Front (Question)

What is the magnification of your eyepiece lens?

Back (Answer)

x10

Front (Question)

What are the magnifications of your objective lenses?

Back (Answer)

x4 x10 x40 x100

Front (Question)

Name 3/4 of the major microscope brands.

Back (Answer)

Olympus Nikon Zeiss Leitz

Front (Question)

What type of filters are used in fluorescent microscopes?

Back (Answer)

Exciter filter Barrier filter

Front (Question)

What is the function of the exciter filter in a fluorescent microscope?

Back (Answer)

The exciter filter allows only a certain wavelength of light to pass through and reach the sample

Front (Question)

What is the function of the barrier filter in a fluorescent microscope?

Back (Answer)

The barrier filter allows a specific wavelength of light to pass through to the detector

Front (Question)

Name three anti-coagulants used for blood samples.

Back (Answer)

Sodium citrate EDTA Lithium heparin

#10

Front (Question)

Why are anti-coagulants used?

Back (Answer)

To prepare the whole blood or the plasma

#11

Front (Question)

What are the tests carried out on cerebro-spinal fluid to investigate infection (meningitis)?

Back (Answer)

Cytospin Gram Staining

#12

Front (Question)

Describe the process of cytospin.

Back (Answer)

Add couple drops of sample into the cytospin which compacts the sample into a dot on a slide - this concentrates the cellular material

#13

Front (Question)

What category does staphylococcus aureus belong to?

Back (Answer)

Bacteria

#14

Front (Question)

What category does myobacterium tuberculosis belong to?

Back (Answer)

Bacteria

#15

Front (Question)

What category does HIV1 belong to?

Back (Answer)

Virus

#16

Front (Question)

What category does plasmodium falciparum belong to?

Back (Answer)

Protozoan

#17

Front (Question)

What is plasmodium falciparum commonly called?

Back (Answer)

Malaria

#18

Front (Question)

What category does Ebola belong to?

Back (Answer)

Virus

#19

Front (Question)

What category does meningitis belong to?

Back (Answer)

Virus or bacteria depending on the type

#20

Front (Question)

Which is the more fatal type of meningitis, bacterial or viral?

Back (Answer)

Bacterial

#21

Front (Question)

What type of bin should you dispose needles in?

Back (Answer)

Sharps

#22

Front (Question)

What type of bin should you dispose latex gloves in

Back (Answer)

Yellow bags/biological waste bags

#23

Front (Question)

What type of bin should you dispose paper in?

Back (Answer)

Black bag

#24

Front (Question)

What type of bin should you dispose blood in?

Back (Answer)

Blood is drained down the sink, the container is either put in the yellow bag or the sharps bin depending on weather or not it is sharp