Characteristics of Living Things
This is the smallest unit of life that all living things are made of.
What is the cell?
True or false: viruses can reproduce by themselves.
All organisms are made of these.
What are cells?
This type of cell has a nucleus.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
These are the three main states of matter.
What are solids, liquids, and gases?
Most flowering plants reproduce through this method.
What is sexual reproduction?
Viruses need this in order to reproduce.
What is a host/host cell?
The Cell Theory has this many parts.
What is three?
Bacteria are made of this kind of cell.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Particles move this way in a gas.
What is quickly and spread out in all directions?
This characteristic of life explains why a baby grows into an adult.
What is growth and development?
Name one reason that viruses are not considered living.
What is...
- They cannot carry out all 8 characteristics of life
- They don't have cells
- They can't reproduce on their own
- Etc.
The invention of this important device in the 16th century allowed for the observation of cells.
What is the microscope?
This type of cell is unicellular.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Electrons are found here.
What is the electron cloud?
A dog hiding from fireworks is an example of this.
Response to stimuli/environment.
This is how viruses differ from bacteria.
What is bacteria are alive?
Name two parts of the cell theory.
What is...
1. All living things are made of one or more cells.
2. The cell is the basic unit of life.
3. All cells come from pre-existing cells.
Give two differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
What are:
- Prokaryotic cells have no nuclei/eukaryotic cells have nuclei
- Prokaryotic cells are smaller/eukaryotic cells are larger
- Eukaryotic cells are more complex/prokaryotic are less complex
- Eukaryotic cells have membrane-bound organelles; prokaryotic cells don't
This is the term for the gradual movement of the continents across Earth's surface over time.
This term describes how an organism keeps a stable INTERNAL environment.
Viruses inject this into host cells to take them over.
What is genetic material (DNA/RNA)?
These two German scientists were the first to propose that cells are the basic units of all organisms (name one).
Who are Schwann and Schleiden?
These four types of cell are all eukaryotic cells.
What are plant, animal, protist, and fungi cells?
These are the three main parts of an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?