To study the details of protein molecules on the surface of a cell, a biologist would likely use a
microscope?
Well, logic impelles me to conclude that a protein is super, I mean really tiny, so tiny in fact, it's commonly referred to as "microscopic." Do wht you want with this information :P
Proteins are very small so to see them you would need a powerful microscope. Light microscopes - like the compound 'scope and the dissecting 'scope won't cut it. And as for the difference between transmission electron microscopes TEMs and scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), TEMs bounce a beam of electrons off a slice or cross section of a sample. SEMs bounce a beam of electrons off the surface of a sample and reconstruct the surface details, depending on how the electron beam refracts...
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