Characteristics of Life 1
The smallest unit of life.
Cell
An organism's tendency to maintain stable internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
An organism whose entire body consists of only one cell.
What is unicellular?
An organism that uses sunlight to produce its own energy for cellular respiration.
What is an Autotroph?
The only organelle that was visible in the cheeks cells you collected during the Cheek Cell Lab.
What is the Nucleus?
Humans eat food to obtain this essential component required to sustain life
What is energy?
Cellular respiration breaks down sugars and releases energy. This is an example of this type of metabolism.
What is catabolism?
The set of instructions found inside the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.
What is DNA?
You play outside in the heat and you begin to sweat. Identify the stimulus in this scenario.
What is An Increase in Body Temperature?
Photosynthesis builds sugar. It is this type of metabolism
What is anabolism?
The branch of science that studies living things
What is Biology?
Blood is made up of 55% plasma (water, salts, proteins, fat) and 45% cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets) that work together to help maintain homeostasis. Blood is, therefore, classified as this level of biological organization.
What is a tissue?
True or False: The ability to breath is a characteristic of living things
What is False?
An organism made of more than one Eukaryotic cell.
What is Multicellular?
This is the molecule of heredity.
What is DNA?
Populations can change over time as mutations are passed down through generations. If these mutations are helpful to survival, this is an example of...
What is heredity/ adaptation?
Mr. Lawyer conducts an experiment to test the effects of caffeine on betta fish. The caffeine is this component of Mr. Lawyer's experiment.
What is the Independent or Manipulated Variable?
Cells working together are organized into this structure.
What are tissues?
This organelle transports proteins throughout the cell.
What is the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The two characteristics of life that distinguish a car from a living organism.
What are Growth and Reproduction?
This characteristic of life involves the combining of genes from two parents to produce offspring.
What is Sexual reproduction?
True or False. Humans are made of prokaryotic cells.
What is False?
Control of temperature, pH, and blood sugar are examples of this characteristic.
What is homeostasis?
The part of the cell that keeps the cell together. It was one of two parts of the cheek cells that were visible in the Cheek Cell Lab.
What is the Cell Membrane?
What are Cells, Tissues, Organs, Organ Systems, Organism?