The sum total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that matter to sustain the organism's life functions.
What is Metabolism?
100
Organisms that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
100
Reproduction that requires two organisms.
What is sexual reproduction?
100
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The science of classifying organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
200
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Organisms that produce their own food.
What is a producer?
200
Reproduction accomplished by a single organism.
What is asexual repoduction?
200
A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.
What is a theory?
200
A cell with distinct, membrane-bounded organelles.
What is an Eukaryotic Cell?
300
The sum total of all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life.
What is anabolism?
300
Organisms that eat living producers and/or living consumers for food.
What is a consumer?
300
Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external enviroment.
What is a receptor?
300
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
What is Scientific Law?
300
A cell that has no distinct membrane-bounded organelles.
What is a Prokaryotic Cell?
400
The sum total of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.
What is catabolism?
400
Organisms that are able to make their own food.
What is an autotroph?
400
An abrubt and marked change in DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents.
What is a mutation?
400
Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye.
What is a microorganism?
400
A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units.
What is a species?
500
All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from the surrounding and convert it into energy that sustains them.
What is one of the four criteria for life?
500
Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.
What is a heterotroph?
500
The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parents to the offspring.
What is inheritance?
500
The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reations.
What is abiogenesis?
500
Naming an organism with its genus and species name.