Characteristics of living things
All living things are made of one or more of these, the basic units of life.
What are cells?
This group of organisms makes their own food using energy from sunlight.
What are autotrophs?
Scientific names are composed of these two levels of classification.
What are genus and species names?
This is the kingdom we belong to.
What is the animal kingdom.
Protozoans and algae are two types of organisms in this kingdom.
What are protists?
All living things do this, the process of making more of their species.
What is reproduce?
This group of organisms cannot make their own food and needs to obtain energy from other sources.
What are heterotrophs?
This is the proper way to write a scientific name for an organism.
What is with the genus and species names italicized and the genus name capitalized?
This kingdom consists entirely of multicellular autotrophs.
What is the plant kingdom?
The naming, describing, and classifying of organisms are all part of this.
What is taxonomy?
These two domains consist of prokaryotes.
What are bacteria and archaea?
Eukaryotes have this, prokaryotes do not.
What is a cell nucleus?
Living things sense and respond to these.
What are stimuli?
All organisms need this chemical, which, among other functions, allows more chemicals to dissolve than any other substance on Earth.
What is water?
This is a tool used to identify organisms that uses paired statements that describe different characteristics of organisms.
What is a taxonomic or dichotomous key?
This kingdom consists of complex multicellular organisms that don't photosynthesize, but absorb food from their environment.
What is the fungi kingdom?
This is the system that is used to name organisms.
What is binomial nomenclature?
What is energy?
Name the 8 levels of classification from the broadest to the most specific.
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
This kingdom consists of eukaryotes that cannot be classified into any other kingdom.
What is the protist kingdom.
This scientist developed the system of naming that scientists still use today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?