Re: What is the difference between monocular microscop and a stereo microscope?

Monocular microscopes belong to a microscope family, so-called "high power 
microscopes" (for its large amplification) or "compound microscopes" (for 
its mechanism of multiple objective lens). They are used to look at the 
tiniest things such as insect parts, plant parts, blood cells, yeast cells 
and even bacteria! Most have three lower objective lenses giving total 
powers of 40X, 100X and 400X. Some have a fourth lens offering 1000X (!). 
Monocular microscope has only one eyepiece lenses at the top. But some have 
two eyepiece lenses (binocular head).  Stereo microscopes are also called 
"inspection", "dissection" (for its widely used functions in biological or 
medical laboratories) or "low power" microscopes. They are often used to 
look at relatively large things. Both binocular microscopes and stereo 
microscopes have two eyepieces. However, unlike binocular microscopes, 
stereo microscopes have its own objective lens for each of their eyepiece. 
Therefore, you will see the object in 3-D or "stereo" under stereo 
microscope.