Living things
I am the largest category of classification.
What is a Domain?
A tiny nonliving particle that enters then reproduces inside a living cell
What is a virus
Allows exchange of carbon dioxide, oxygen and water vapor
What are stoma
All animals are classified based on this
What is whether or not they have a backbone
The most harmful of these are parasites
What are protists?
Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react is some way
What is a stimulus?
A substance that is weakened or killed but can still trigger the body to prpduce chemicals to destroy the pathogen
What is a vaccine
Three basic structures of land plants
What are leaves, stem and roots
cells working together form
What are tissues
The scientific study of how organisms are classified
What is a taxonomy?
A single-celled organism that lacks a nucleus
What is bacteria
Food moves through the vascular tissues called
What is phloem
invertebrates lack a backbone - but they have one of these two structures
what is an exoskeleton or endoskeleton
Two examples of materials needed by living things.
What are food and water?
Asexual reproduction in bacteria
What is binary fission
In a vascular plant, water and minerals travel through the
What is xylem
Mammals are grouped into these three groups
What are marsupials, monotremes and placentals
A paramecium dividing and a puffball releasing spores are examples of this trait of living things.
What is reproduction?
A scientific name is written like this
Genus Species - italics and Genus is capitalized?
heterotrophs that feed by absorbing food through their cell walls
What are fungi
A low growing plant that lacks vascular tissue and true roots
What is a nonvascular plant
Characteristics that organisms inherit that help them survive in their environment
The belief that lving things came from non-living sources
What is spontaneous generation?
The process by which unrelated organisms evolve similar characteristics
What is convergent evolution
Eukaryotic organisms that cannot be classified as animals, plants or fungi
What are protists
The three structures that plant cells have that animal cells don't
What are a cell wall, chloroplasts, and one large vacuole.