Characteristics of Life
These are the basic units of structure and function in all living organisms.
What are Cells?
This is the broadest taxonomic category
What is a domain?
These two kingdoms consist only of prokaryotic organisms.
What are Eubacteria and Archaebacteria?
This is the term for spherical-shaped bacteria.
What is coccus?
These are the simplest land plants, lacking true roots and vascular tissue.
What are bryophytes (mosses)?
All living things must maintain this stable internal condition.
What is homeostasis?
The scientific name for an organism includes these two taxonomic ranks.
What are genus and species?
This kingdom contains mostly multicellular organisms that photosynthesize.
What is the Plant Kingdom?
This type of reproduction is how bacteria clone themselves.
What is binary fission?
These spore-producing vascular plants reproduce without seeds.
What are pteridophytes (ferns)?
This term describes all chemical processes that occur within a living organism.
What is metabolism?
The correct order of the taxonomic hierarchy from Kingdom to Species.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
These two kingdoms can be unicellular or multicellular, but do not have chlorophyll.
What are Fungi and Protista?
These are the two main types of viral reproduction cycles.
What are the lytic and lysogenic cycles?
This group of seed-producing vascular plants produces cones.
What are gymnosperms?
This universal genetic molecule carries instructions for all living things.
What is DNA?
The term for naming species using Genus and species names.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This kingdom consists of extremophiles like halophiles and thermophiles.
What is Archaebacteria?
The difference between aerobic and anaerobic bacteria.
What is aerobic needs oxygen, anaerobic does not?
This plant group includes flowering plants and produces seeds enclosed in fruit.
What are angiosperms?
The two types of reproduction that living organisms use to pass on genetic material.
What are asexual and sexual reproduction?
This tool is used to identify organisms based on a series of paired statements.
What is a dichotomous key?
Name one major characteristic that distinguishes fungi from plants.
What is fungi are heterotrophic while plants are autotrophic? (Also acceptable: fungi have chitin in cell walls, plants have cellulose.)
These are the preferred environmental conditions for halophiles, thermophiles, and acidophiles.
What are extreme conditions?
These are adaptations plants developed to live on land. Name two.
What are cuticle, stomata, vascular tissue, roots, seeds, or pollen? (Any two are acceptable.)