Basics
A better word for “any living thing.”
A better word for “any living thing.”
Most cells in multicellular organisms do only these kinds of jobs.
What are specialized functions?
The planet known as the Red Planet.
The genetic material that controls cell structure and function.
What is DNA?
Organisms that make their own food.
The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What is a cell?
A change that affects the activity of an organism.
What is a stimulus?
The mathematical name for the distance around a circle.
Circumference
Difference between sexual and asexual reproduction (think DNA)
2 copies vs. one copy of DNA
Organisms that must eat other organisms for energy.
An organism made of only one cell.
What is unicellular?
A reaction to a change in the environment.
What is a response?
The historical period between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment.
What is the Renaissance?
What is the study of heredity?
Genetics
The process of taking food into the body.
What is ingestion?
An organism made of more than one cell.
What is multicellular?
The process that keeps conditions inside the body stable.
What is homeostasis?
The layer of Earth where tectonic plates move.
Lithosphere (mantle)
Asexual reproduction where a new organism grows on the parent.
Budding
The process of breaking food down into usable parts.
Digestion
A quality or property that helps define or classify something.
What is a characteristic?
Shivering when cold and sweating when hot are examples of this.
What is homeostasis?
The ancient Greek thinker who taught Plato.
Who is Socrates?
Binary fission is commonly used by this type of organism.
Bacteria
The process cells use to release energy from food.
Cellular Respiration