A problem to be resolved by the invention resides in providing a
multifunction analyzing apparatus for detecting a shape with high
resolution and physical property information capable of not only
successively reading a base arrangement from end to end but also
specifying a position hybridized by known RNA with regard to a single
piece of DNA elongated in one direction on a board. A microscope system
of the invention is provided with a fluorescence microscope, a scanning
near field microscope and a scanning probe microscope as a detecting
system, the microscopes are fixed to a switching mechanism and can be
moved to a position at which the various microscopes can observe the same
portion of a sample by switching operation of the mechanism. The
microscope system of the invention is provided with a function capable of
directly detecting a shape and physical property information of one piece
of DNA by the scanning probe microscope by multifunction scanning.