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What are cells?
The structural and functional units of living things.
What are the characteristics of the animal kingdom?
Eukaryotic cells, multicellular, forms tissues, heterotrophic, and classified into invertebrates and vertebrates.
What are the three vital functions?
Nutrition, interaction, and reproduction.
What are the taxonomic categories?
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
What are some main differences between an animal cell and a plant cell?
Plant cells have cell walls and chloroplasts as well as larger vacuoles.
What is a tissue?
A group of cells with a similar structure that perform the same function.
What are the characteristics of the plant kingdom?
Eukaryotic cells, multicellular, forms tissues, autotrophic, and classified into hepaticae, mosses, ferns, and spermatophytes.
What is the process of nutrition and what are the two types?
The process by which an organism takes in organic matter to produce energy, either autotrophic or heterotrophic.
What are the six kingdoms?
Archaea, bacteria, protoctista, fungi, plants, and animals.
What are the three main types of asexual reproduction?
Binary fission (one cell splits into two cells of a smaller size), budding (one cell splits into two cells of different sizes), and sporulation (the nucleus of a cell divides multiple times, creating lots of cells).
What is a bioelement?
The elements that form living things.
What are the characteristics of the fungi kingdom?
Eukaryotic cells, unicellular or multicellular, does not form tissues, heterotrophic, and classified into yeasts, molds, and fungi.
Define the process of interaction and give an example.
When a living thing senses a change in its environment and responds to it.
When making classification criteria, what three things must the criteria be?
What is the main difference between the offspring of asexual and sexual reproduction?
The offspring of sexual reproduction are not identical to their parent cells, but the offspring of asexual reproduction are identical to the parent cell.
What is taxonomy?
The science of classifying living things according to natural criteria.
What are the characteristics of the bacteria kingdom?
Prokaryotic cells, unicellular, does not form tissues, autotrophic or heterotrophic, and classified into bacteria.
What is reproduction and what are the two main types?
The process by which an organism produces offspring, can be asexual, sexual, or a combination of both.
How many kingdoms contain prokaryotic cells and which kingdoms are they?
2 kingdoms, archaea and bacteria.
What is cell specialization and what are three advantages of it?
Cell specialization is when cells use different DNA to carry out a specific function in a multicellular eukaryotic organism.
Three advantages are longevity, division of labor, and higher efficiency.
What is binomial nomenclature and who invented it?
The system used to same a species, where the first word is the genus and the second word is the species. It was invented by Charles Linnaeus.
What are the characteristics of the archaea kingdom?
Prokaryotic cells, unicellular, does not form tissues, autotrophic or heterotrophic, and classified into archaebacteria (archaea).
Why is reproduction different than the other vital functions?
It is vital for the survival of the species, not the individual.
How many kingdoms form tissues and which kingdoms are they?
2 kingdoms, plants and animals.
Can a class contain members of different phylums or members of different orders?
Different orders, since order is more specific than a class.