Characteristics
The ability of organisms to produce offspring "after their kind."
What is reproduction?
Includes sugars and starches
What are carbohydrates?
The science of classifying living organisms into groups
What is taxonomy?
The smallest living unit of an organism
What is a cell?
All living things are made of cells.
What is cell theory?
The process of taking nonliving particles to build and replace substances and cells faster than they are wearing out.
What is growth?
Contain the coded instructions that living cells need to make proteins and maintain life
What are nucleic acids?
Proposed the modern classification system
Who was Carl Linnaeus?
Tiny organisms made of only one cell.
What is unicellular?
All cells come from ____________.
What are preexisting cells?
Process that begins with fertilization, continues through periods of growth and ends when the organism dies.
What is life cycle?
Provides the body with energy
What are carbohydrates?
The language used for scientific names.
What is Latin?
True or false. An organism can be classified in more than one family.
What is false?
All living things are made of cells and the ___________.
What are the products of cells?
Plants can open and close as temperatures change.
What is respond to their environment?
Largely make up the membranes of cells and cell parts
What are lipids (or fats)?
The two parts of a scientific name.
What are genus and species?
Type of protein that regulates the rate at which chemical reactions in the body occur.
What are enzymes?
Cells perform the _______ of living things.
What are functions?
Animals need food and plants require sunlight.
What is energy?
Serve as building blocks for different parts of the cell
What are proteins?
The seven basic levels from largest to smallest
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
Two major types of nucleic acids.
What are RNA and DNA?
The four main functions of cells.
What are use energy, manufacture materials, respond to their environment, and reproduce?