Definitions
A living system with parts that work together to carry out the processes of life
What is an organism?
The type of animal without a backbone
What is an invertebrate?
Another name for unicellular organisms
What are micro-organisms?
The type of organism that benefits from cell specialization
What are multicellular organisms?
Two examples of needs that must be met by multicellular organisms
What is eating, breathing, responding to your environment, and/or being able to move from place to place?
Organisms that usually obtain nutrients from dead or decaying matter and cannot carry out photosynthesis
What are fungi?
The largest organ in the human body
What is the skin?
The 2 types of organisms that can make their own food through photosynthesis
What are plant-like protists and some kinds of bacteria?
The 4 types of differentiated cells
What are muscle, epithelial, fat, and nerve cells?
When a frog is underwater, this organ becomes permeable to water and gases
What is skin?
An organism that is neither a plant nor animal, but shares many of the same characteristics of both
What is a protist?
The most abundant unicellular organism on earth
What are bacteria?
3 things that a unicellular organism might move towards or away from
What are food, light, and predators?
The type of differentiated cells that contract
What are muscle cells?
This type of cell is highly specialized to process and transmit information
What is a nerve cell?
The process by which a cell becomes specialized to preform a specific function
What is cellular differentiation?
4 organs found in animals
What are skin, heart, stomach, brain, lungs, intestines, eyes, and/or liver?
A unicellular organism found in aquatic environments
What is the Paramecia (Paramecium)?
The structures formed by the assembly of tissues
What are organs?
Where wastes pass through and are eliminated as urine
What is the kidney?
A system of tubes in a plant that transports nutrients from the leaves to the rest of the plant
What are phloem vessels?
4 organs found in plants
What is the stem, leaves, flowers, and roots?
A protist that uses pseudopods to obtain nutrients or to get rid of waste
What is the amoeba?
The 5 types of organ systems
This specialized stomach come between the crop and the intestine in a worm's body
What is a gizzard?