They both magnify what youre looking at through them.
A microscope has two lenses and magnifies much more powerfully than a normal hand lens.
the light microscope
it is the one which magnifies specimen
They r alike because they both are able to have the three zooms to different levels and they both focus on small mircoscopic organisms.
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