Characteristics of Life
An organism increases in size.
What is growth?
An organism that can move on its own
What is a mobile
The science of classifying organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
The three domains.
What is Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya?
The man behind our modern classification system.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
An organism detects change in its environment using its five senses.
What is a response to a stimulus?
An organism that cannot move on its own
What is an stationary
What is unicellular and multicellular?
The most specific level of classification.
What is Species
Binomial nomenclature is
How we create scientific names for organisms.
True or False. All living things require light to live.
False
A type of reproduction that has one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
A cell with a nucleus is called _________.
What is a eukaryote?
All bacteria are ________ organisms. (Hint: cells)
What is unicellular or prokaryotic
The classification system groups animals according to:
Similar Characteristics
All living things reproduce ___________.
What is offspring?
A type of reproduction that has two parents
What is sexual reproduction?
An organism that has to eat other organisms to get its energy.
What is a heterotroph?
This would be classified under the fungi kingdoms
What are mushrooms?
Scientist use the Linnaean naming system because:
Names of organisms are different all over the world.
All organisms require 6 things to be considered alive.
Energy, Sense and Respond, Growth, Reproduction, Have DNA, Made of cells
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph.
A cell without a nucleus is called a ________.
What is a prokaryote?
Name the levels of classification in order from broadest to most specific.
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Organisms are named using binomial nomenclature which is.