7 Characteristics of Living Things
The classification level between family and species.
What is genus?
The basic units of structure and function in living things.
What is a cell?
Another term for a light microscope.
What is a compound microscope?
The two name naming system for classifying organisms.
What is binomial nomenclature?
The scientific study of how living things are classified.
What is taxonomy?
First discovered the cell why studying cork trees.
Who is Robert Hooke?
The way to calculate the magnification of an object.
What is eyepiece lens X objective = total magnification?
What to do to the scientific name if it is typed.
What is put in italics?
The founder of taxonomy.
Who is Carolus Lennaeus (1750)?
First to discover micro-organisms using a microscope.
Who is Leuwenhoek?
The part of the microscope that adjusts the amount of light entering the stage.
What is the diaphragm?
The third level in the organization of living things.
What is Phylum?
A chemical in all organisms that are the cell's main energy source.
What are carbohydrates?
This domain are prokaryotic, unicellular organisms that only live in harsh environments.
What is Archaea?
These types of microscopes use a beam of electrons instead of light to produce a magnified image.
What is an electron microscope?
The lowest magnification power of the three objectives.
What is the scanning objective?
The surface where the slide rests is called this.
What is the stage?
The two types of cells organisms can have.
What are uni and multicellular?
This Kingdom in the Domain Eukarya are multicellular, autotrophic organisms.
What is Plantae?
These types of lens in a microscope are curved and bend light inwards.
What is a convex lens ?
The term used when the stage is all the down, the light is off, and the scanning objective is put in place.
What is "park"?
The three steps to "Think Like a Scientist."
What is be more observant of the world around you, ask good questions about those observations, and find the answers through research or experimentation?