The Basic Unit
The smallest thing that can be alive.
What is a cell?
Carbon, Hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
What are carbohydrates made of?
Involved in almost everything that happens in a living cells, forms of this biomolecule fight disease as antibodies, contract to make your muscles move, and are essential in many other life processes.
What are proteins?
The classification of living organisms.
What is taxonomy?
In the 1700s, this Swedish botanist created the modern classification system that we still use today.
Carolus Linnaeus
All cells come from preexisting cells
All living things are made of cells and the products of cells
Cells perform the functions of living things
What are the statements of cell Theory?
While having too much or that wrong kinds can be unhealthy, this biomolecule is essential. It forms your cell membranes, store energy, and helps with communication and transpiration across the cell membrane.
It is also known as fats.
What are lipids?
These special proteins regulate many life-supporting processes.
What are enzymes?
The largest classification level.
What is kingdom?
After looking at a piece of cork under a microscope, he called what he saw "cells"
Who is Robert Hooke?
All cells use energy
All cells manufacture materials
All cells respond to their environment
All cells reproduce themselves
What are the four basic cell functions?
Includes sugars and starches.
What are carbohydrates?
This specific biomolecule contains the coded instructions for every protein in a living organism.
The modern classification system is based on these.
What are physical traits?
Organisms that can reproduce together, such as horses and zebras, wolves and dogs.
What are biblical kinds?
The liquid inside of a cell that contains many organelles.
What is cytoplasm?
Being afraid of liquid.
What is hydrophobic?
There are about 20 of them and different combinations make the various proteins needed in living organisms.
What are amino acids?
Being more specific then the common name, it can belong to only one organism. It contains the genus and the species of the organism, it write in the latin language. The genus comes first and is always capitalized while the species is second and is never capitalized. When typed it is italicized but when handwritten it is underlined.
What is a scientific name?
An organism that supposedly gave rise to two or more different organisms, and would have had traits for each of those organisms.
What is a common ancestor?
Some cells are this because they perform a task no other cell can do.
What is specialized?
Liking liquid.
What is hydrophilic?
What are nucleic acids?
An organism can be in only one of each classification levels, known a this.
What is a taxon?
The scientist that discovered the cause and cure of and for pellagra.
Who is Dr. Joseph Goldberger?