Lesson 1 Characteristics of Life
6 Characteristics of life
What are organization, grow and develop, reproduce, respond to stimuli, homeostasis, and use energy?
a branched diagram that shows the relationships among organisms, including common ancestors
What is a cladogram?
The earliest microscope had this
What is one lens?
Living things that are made of 2 or more cells
What are multicelluar organisms?
Has ALL 6 characteristics of life
What is an organism?
True or false:
Nonliving things might have SOME characteristics of life.
What is true?
Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
What are the 3 Domains?
2 characteristics of all microscopes
What are magnification and resolution?
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
Living things that are made of only one cell
What are unicelluar organisms?
The sun
What is the source of energy for all organisms?
6 Kingdoms of life.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia?
2 types of light microscope
What are simple and compound?
a group of similar species; the first name in binomial nomenclature
What is a genus?
uses light and lenses to enlarge an image of an object
What is a light microscope?
Reproduces by dividing and becomes 2 new organisms
What is a unicelluar organism?
The taxonomy order for classifying organisms
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species
2 types of electron microscope
What are scanning and transmission?
group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring; second part of binomial nomenclature name
What is species?
Use a magnetic field to focus a beam of electrons through an object or onto an object's surface
What are electron microscopes?
The feeling of hunger is an example of.....
What is internal stimuli?
One of the first people to classify organisms; he placed all organisms into 2 large groups
Who is Aristotle?
Magnification of a light microscope and electron microscope.
What is 1,500 times and 100,000 times?
a series of descriptions arranged in pairs that lead the user to the identification of an unknown organism
What is a dichotomous key?
a 2-word scientific name
What is binomial nomenclature?