Vocabulary
Any living thing that can move, grow, and reproduce; most need air, food and water
What is an organism
Multiple cells
What is multicellular?
The scientific name for a squirrel is Sciurus carolinensis. Sciurus would be the organism's
What is genus?
A kingdom of eukaryotic, mostly multicellular organisms with cell walls made chitin. These organisms obtain energy from decomposing dead organisms and absorbing their nutrients.
What is Fungi?
A microscopic reproductive particle produced by organisms in the fungi kingdom .
What is a spore?
These are organisms that must consume another organism for energy.
What are consumers? What is a Heterotroph?
An organism so small it can only be viewed with a microscope.
What is a microorganism?
Cells with only simple organelles and a nucleus but not bound by a membrane.
What are Prokaryotes?
These are the six kingdoms for organisms.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia?
A kingdom of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms that contain cell walls. These organism make their own food.
What are plants?
The last word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
What is the species?
A single cell
What is unicellular?
The process of grouping things based on shared characteristics
What is classification? What is Taxonomy?
The process of creating new life with one parent
What is Asexual reproduction?
The process of creating new life with one parent
What is Asexual reproduction?
The man who created the classification system
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
What is binomial nomenclature?
Cells with a membrane-bound nucleus and specialized organelles
What are Eukaryote cells?
A kingdom of prokaryotic, unicellular organisms that live in extreme environments.
What is Archaebacteria?
The small, basic unit of living matter of which all organisms are made
What is a Cell?
Starting with Kingdom, these are the 7 classification categories for organisms in order of increasing specificity.
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
What is a Symbiosis?
A kingdom of diverse, eukaryotic organisms. Most are unicellular, but some may be multicellular. Some are "plant-like", "animal-like", and "fungi-like"
What are protists?
Protista and fungi have some members that are unicellular. But in these two kingdoms ALL members are unicellular.
What are Kingdoms Archaebacteria and Eubacteria?