An advantage of electron microscopes compared to light microscopes is that electron microscopes

are inexpensive and commonly used in most biology laboratories

allow you to view living cells, while light microscopes do not

have higher resolution that allows you to view smaller specimens

allow you to view the true colors of the specimens being viewed

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it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.