Characteristics of Life
A complete living thing
What is an organism?
All living things are made of ___.
What is a cell?
Author of the classification system still in use today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
Material inside a cell (everything but the nucleus)?
What is cytoplasm?
Biblical term for a group of reproducing organisms
What is a kind?
A plant adding more cells to increase in length
What is growth?
All cells come from ____.
What are preexisting cells?
Organisms are classified based on ___.
What are physical characteristics?
Molecules containing carbon and made by living things
What is organic?
Man's term for a group of reproducing organisms
What is a species?
A unicellular organism dividing to create two organisms
What is reproduction?
Part of the cell Hooke observed under his microscope
What are cell walls?
Arranging things into groups
What is classifying?
Proteins that regulate chemical reactions
What are enzymes?
Name used by the general public for an organism
What is a common name?
A plant turning toward the sunlight
What is responding to the environment?
Kingdom in which molds are found
Whqt is Kingdom Fungi?
Small units that make up proteins
What are amino acids?
Another name for the two word scientific name
What is the genus-species name?
The stages that make up an organism's life
What is a life cycle?
The science of classifying organisms
Enzyme is to protein as cellulose is to ___.
What is a carbohydrate?
Language form of scientific names
What is Latin?
Muscle cells using stored glycogen or plants using stored starch
What is the ability to use energy?
The taxon made up of several families.
What is an order?
Molecule that makes up cell membranes
What are lipids?
Assuming the traits of one organism apply to other organisms in the same group
What is generalization?
DNA codes for ___.
What is a protein?