Characteristics of Life
Things that have all the characteristics of life.
What is organisms?
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The feeling of hunger.
What is internal stimuli?
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An organism's ability to maintain steady internal condition when outside conditions change.
What is homeostasis?
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Gives each organism a two-word scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
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A microscope that uses light lenses to enlarge an image of an object.
What is a light microscope?
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What makes people and plants different from lights and books?
They don't have the same characteristics.
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Changes of the organism's environment.
What is external stimuli?
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Cells need certain condition to function properly.
Yes
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A group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
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A light microscope that uses more than one lens to magnify an object.
What is a compound microscope?
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Do classrooms contain living and nonliving things?
yes
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The feeling of thirst.
What is internal stimuli?
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Does your body respond when the environment gets hotter or colder?
Yes it does.
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A group of similar species.
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A magnetic field to focus a beam of electrons through an object or onto an object's surface.
What is a electron microscope?
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All living things are organized, grow and develop, reproduce, respond, maintain certain internal conditions, and use _______.
What is Energy?
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Does plants stem grow towards the light source?
Yes
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A structure that collects and pumps excess water out of a cell.
What is contractile vacuole?
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The animal that has the name ursus arctos.
What is a brown bear?
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Light microscopes can in large images up to ______ to its original size.
What is 1500?
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Five things you might find in a class room that are nonliving?
What is a book, pencil, white board, desk, ruler?
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Some animals respond to temperature.
What is external stimuli?
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Your cells lose their ability to function when they don't have water.
Yes
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In binomial nomenclature the first word is the organisms genus name.
What is Ursus?
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TEMs are usually used to study extremely small things such as ________.
What are cell structures?
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