Characteristics of Life
All living things are made up of these fundamental building blocks.
What are cells?
Factors in an experiment that have the ability to change or vary.
What are variables?
According to Genesis, God created human beings special because He made them in this.
What is His image?
Organisms with similar physical and biological features are often classified together based on these.
What are characteristics?
These two classification levels make up the two-part scientific name (binomial nomenclature) given to every specific organism.
What are Genus and Species?
Organisms need this to move and carry out essential life processes like growth and response.
What is energy
In a controlled experiment, a scientist tests the effect of only this many variables at a time.
What is one?
God established distinct groups of organisms capable of reproducing with one another, known as these.
What are kinds?
Classification helps scientists group similar organisms together to see where they are similar, and separate groups to identify these.
What are differences?
The two categories used to classify organisms based on whether they consist of a single cell or many cells.
What are unicellular and multicellular?
The specific variable that the scientist intentionally changes or manipulates during an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Because life features deeply complex parts working together, it shows evidence of being engineered this way.
What is divinely engineered?
The mnemonic memory phrase often used to remember the eight levels of classification in order.
What is "Did King Philip Come Over For Good Soup"?
An organism's ability to react to changes in its surrounding environment
What is response?
According to the law of superposition, rock layers found deeper in undisturbed ground are this compared to layers near the top.
What is older?
Humans are description-wise "this" in our ability to observe, relate, and fully explain everything we see in the universe.
What is limited?
The broadest (largest) level of biological classification at the top of the hierarchy.
What is Domain?
Name all 5 essential characteristics that most scientists agree an organism must have to be considered alive.
What is Organization
Energy
Growth
Reproduction
Response
The variables that change as a result of the experiment and are measured by the scientist.
What are dependent variables?
The total estimated number of living organism species existing in the world today.
What are millions?
Name the 8 levels of biological classification in order from broadest to most specific.
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?