Terms
The smallest unit of life in creation
Cell
A plant turning its leaves toward the sun as the sun moves across the sky illustrates the criterion of life.
True
The first criterion for life is that all living things contain hereditary information in their _____ which enables life to continue through reproduction.
DNA
An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organism
Decomposer
An owl not coming out to hunt at night as it notices the sun setting illustrates the criterion of life
_____ is the broader taxonomic grouping
Genus
An organism that does not have cells with a nucleus.
Bacteria
A rock rolling down a hill after a strong gust of wind blew nearby illustrates the criterion of life.
False
Domain ______ contains bacteria that can live at the highest altitudes on dust particles.
Archaea
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
Photosynthesis
A tree cutting off nutrients to its leaves in the shorter days of autumn, causing them to fall illustrates the criterion of life.
True
Domain _____ contains mushrooms.
Eukarya
A method of sorting things according to shared qualities or characteristics
Classification
Organisms that have few natural predators and live in large protective groups (live in safe environments) are more likely to produce a lot of offspring.
False
A strand of DNA is split length-wise. One strand has a nucleotide sequence of guanine, cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine.
What is the sequence of the nucleotide bases on the other strand of this portion of the DNA molecule?
cytosine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, thymine, adenine