why would it be better to be able to see details of living cells than dead cells?

Question

in a mircoscope

Answer 1

When you used an optical microscope in biology class they usually have paramecia and amoeba that are alive and in a slide with a bubble for them to swim in. Most of what you see in biology study involves living cells.

Most of what professionals see are dead cells that are stained to highlight certain features.

Only electron microscopes must only look at dead cells.

Answer 2

To be able to see all the components in action and to tell what function they complete for the cell. Also, some things, like cytoplasm, can leak out of the cell membrane when the cell has died because it is not functioning anymore. And still some other things, such as mitochondria, can actually shrink and/or become an odd shape so you think it is something else.

Answer 3

Because you could see the life processes and how they work. A dead cell is just that inert, you only get to see structure.

Answer 4

you don even get to see the structures properly in the dead cells. when cells die they trigger some kind of lysis program which can destroy the organelles of the cell or the cell as a whole. and besides when cells die you get to see only structural entities whose function has to be assumed.

Answer 5

to see all of the working entities in action