Criteria for Life
All living things must contain this to enable life to continue through reproduction.
What is DNA?
The 5 Kingdoms of living things in the 5-Kingdom System.
What are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia?
Multicellular eukaryotic organisms that make their own food and have leaves, stems and roots.
What is Domain Eukarya / Kingdom Plantae?
First job after Creation was to name the animals?
Who was Adam?
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?
All living things use this to carry on their life processes (and it usually is in the form of glucose).
What is energy?
The 3 domains of the 3 domain system of classification.
What Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya?
Unicellular bacterial extremophiles.
What is Domain Archaea (or Kingdom Monera for 5 Kingdom System)?
The Swedish Botanist who established the first formal scientific classification system.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
All living things use receptors to carry on this pair of life processes.
What is sense and respond to change?
Organisms in Kingdom Monera, and also Domain Archaea and Domain Bacteria are composed of these kinds of cells.
What are prokaryotic cells?
Multicellular organisms composed of eukaryotic cells that are consumers (eat other living organisms).
What is Domain Eukarya / Kingdom Animalia?
The term used to describe a method of classifying organisms into their various taxa.
What is taxonomy?
An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organisms.
What is a decomposer?
All living things are made up of these smallest units of life in creation.
What is a cell?
Organisms in Kingdoms Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia, or in Domain Eukarya are composed of these types of cells?
What are eukaryotic cells?
Unicellular bacteria that have a common cell wall, are affected by most antibiotic medicines and cannot live in extreme environments.
What is Domain Bacteria (or Kingdom Monera in the 5-Kingdom Classification System).
The 7 taxa commonly used in classification.
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
The sixth criteria of life is that all living things grow. These are 2 ways that living things can grow.
What is increase in cell size or increase in the number of cells?
All living things chemically regulate their internal environment so that it is stable, thus maintaining this state.
What is homeostasis?
The alternative system of classification that attempts to figure out the KINDS of creatures God specifically created on Earth.
What is Baraminology?
What is Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Protista?
The 2 taxa that are used in binomial classification.
What are Genus and species?
2 main differences between plant cells and animal cells.
What is plant cells are more square-lke, have a cell well, have a central vacuole to maintain turgor pressure, have chlorophyll-containing chloroplasts.