Characteristics of Life
What are cells?
The theory that living things can develop from nonliving matter.
What is spontaneous generation?
Organisms need this to survive - most commonly oxygen.
What are gases?
The most pure substance that cannot be broken down.
What is an element?
What are carbohydrates?
Characteristic of life that involves creating offspring.
What is reproduction?
The sum of chemical activities taking place inside a living cell or organism
What is metabolism?
What is food?
Two or more elements that are chemically joined to make something new.
What is a compound?
Compounds that make up fats and oils.
What are lipids?
Characteristic of life that involves an organism changing in a structured pattern or cycle.
What is growth and development?
Reproduction that involves only one parent and the offspring is identical to the parent
What is asexual reproduction?
What is water?
A particle consisting of two or more atoms chemically tied together.
What is a molecule?
Compound that is made of amino acids and carries out a multitude of tasks.
What are proteins?
Characteristic of life in which an organism is affected by a stimulus.
What is responding to the environment?
Anything that affects the activity of an organism, causes it to respond to it's environment?
What is a stimulus?
The place in which an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
Compounds that do not contain carbon and were never living.
What are inorganic compounds?
Special proteins that speed up chemical reactions in an organism or cell.
What are enzymes?
Characteristic of life that involves making food, breaking down food, moving materials in and out of cells, and building cells.
What is using energy?
Reproduction that involves two parents and the offspring has characteristics of both parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
What is energy?
Compounds that contain carbon and are/were living.
What are organic compounds?
Compounds that contain genetic information as well as instructions on how an organism should make the protein it needs.
What are nucleic acids?