Choosing A Microscope: Compound or Stereo microscope?

Your application is the most important factor in choosing a microscope. What you need to see and what you want to do with that image will determine what kind of microscope you need.  Microscopes typically come in two types: compound or stereo microscope.
The most common is the compound microscope. It is the one most people [...]

can i see DNA with a microscope?

i have a nikon electric binocular microscope that goes to 400x.
(its a real microscope NOT a plastic toy) and i have this kit that tells me how i can extract the dna from a fruit. they say DNA is 34,000 times thinner than a human hair. i need to know if it is possible to [...]