Understanding Cells
This scientist discovered cells from looking at cork cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
All cells come from other cells
All living things are made of cells.
Cells are the basic units of all living things.
What is the cell theory?
What is a eukaryotic cell?
This nucleic acid chain holds genetic information for the cell.
What is DNA
Means one (List all prefixes you can think of.)
What is mono-?
What is uni-?
These are the classification levels that are used to determine a specie's name.
What are the genus and species?
This system gives every organism two names.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This organism contains one or more cells.
What is multicellular?
Said that animals are made of cells.
Who is Schwann
These two German scientists helped create the Cell Theory.
Who are Schwann and Schleiden?
This is the sum of all energy and chemical reactions that are happening in an organism.
What is metabolism?
This means "true nucleus"
What is eukaryote?
These are the 3 domains of all living things.
Archaea, bacteria, eukarya
This tool is a series of questions used to help classify unknown objects/organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
organization, growth and development, reproduction, response to stimuli, homeostasis, and use of energy
What are the characteristics of life
Said that plants are made of cells.
Who is Schleiden?
This biomolecule stores energy and comes in the form of sugars and starches.
What are carbohydrates?
These are the levels of organization in an organism.
What are cells, tissue, organs, organ systems, and organism.
This prefix pertains to cells.
What is "cyt-" or "cyto-"
Protista, Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi are all a part of this domain.
What is eukarya?
He was the first to create a classification system for organisms.
Who is Linnaeus?
________________ has cells.
What is every living organism (or everything living thing)?
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek observed this using a microscope.
What are living things.
This biomolecule does not dissolve in water and is used as a waterproof membrane.
What is a lipid?
A carbohydrate that has multiple sugars bonded together.
What is a polysaccharide?
This prefix means multi or many.
What is poly-
The taxon levels that give an organism its scientific name.
(write your answer like a scientific name should be answered.)
What is Genus species?
Our current classification system that has 8 levels and is typically listed from broadest to most specific.
What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
This causes the body to respond from an outside force.
What is external stimuli?
Stated all living cells must come from other living cells.
Who is Rudolph Virchow?
Does not have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Type of bond that holds amino acids together.
What is a peptide bond?
This means to break apart.
What is lysis- & lyso-?
The domains with prokaryotic cells only.
What are archaea and bacteria?