Living Things Characteristics
It's got to grow, its got to move and shake loose, its got to eat, its got to reproduce...... finish the lyrics. (Accent optional but encouraged)
What is respond to stimuli, breathe or it will die and the last one is kind of discrete. It's got to excrete.
The idea that life rises from non living materials
What is spontaneous generation
Name one living thing characteristic that viruses do NOT have or do independently
What is cells, eat, respond to stimuli, move, excrete, breathe, adapt, etc.
DNA codes for this and it turns into protein
What is amino acids
All living things need at least one:
What is cell
This scientist placed meat in jars and observed that maggots appeared on exposed meat but not in sealed jars.
Who is Francesco Redi
This is required by a virus in order to reproduce.
What is a host cell or host
The casing which holds virus DNA.
What is a capsid
A cheetah eats a gazelle and breaks down molecules from its food in order to move, grow, and maintain its body.
Which characteristic of life is being demonstrated?
Note: it is not food
What is energy or maintain energy
This scientist used swan-neck flasks containing broth to demonstrate that microorganisms did not spontaneously appear in sterilized broth.
Who is Louis Pasteur
There is evidence that viruses coevolution has predated this part of our evolution tree.
What is LUCA or last universal common ancestor
The gases that were present in early life conditions
What is methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen
A population of bacteria is exposed to an antibiotic. Most of the bacteria die, but a few with genetic traits that provide resistance survive and reproduce. After many generations, resistant bacteria become much more common. Name the 2 characteristics this explains.
What is adaptation and evolution
These two scientists simulated early-Earth conditions using water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and electrical sparks.
Who is Miller and Urie
This is a limited characteristic that only some viruses show
What is responding to stimuli or environment
Draw the virus that led us to discovering CRISPR CAS gene technology and explain what it was able to do to bacteria. (I had a blue planter loosely based off it).
What is it was able to cut out undesired genes and insert or replace them desired genes.
When it is sunny out, current humans have pupils which dilate to let a controlled amount of light into the retina. Name all three characteristics this could fall into.
What is Respond to stimuli, homeostasis, adaptation
This scientist used an example of symbiosis in their discovery which also happened to teach us about cell theory.
Who is Lynn Margulis
The name of a virus "seed" that is a little infection particle
What is a viroid
A pandoravirus has this many cells according to the article on the giant virus
What is 2500 genes