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100

This is another name for living thing

What is an organism?

100

This was mistaken belief that living things could arise from non-living things

What is spontaneous generation?

100

This is the difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote

What is prokaryotes don't have a nucleus in their cells and eukaryotes do have a nucleus in their cells?

100

This is the scientific study of how things are classified

What is taxonomy?

100

This is the name for an organism that CANNOT make its own food, so it must "eat" other living things

What is heterotroph?

100

This is the part of the microscope where the slide is placed before viewing

What is the stage?

100

This chemical is a need of all living things to survive

What is water?

200

These are the basic building blocks of all life

What are cells?

200

Francesco Redi did an experiment using this to disprove spontaneous generation

What is meat and flies (maggots)?

200

These are the four kingdoms of Eukarya

What are plants, animals, protists and fungi?

200

This is the naming system developed by Carolus Linaeus, in which organisms have a two part name

What is binomial nomenclature?

200

This is the name for an organism that CAN make its own food and does not need to consume other living things

What is autotroph?

200

These are the parts you should hold when carrying a microscope

What are the arm and the base?

200

These are the rules for how scientific names must be written

What is in Latin, capital genus (first word), lowercase species (second word)?

300
This is the name for organisms made of a single cell

What is unicellular?

300

Louis Pasteur did an experiment where he heated up broth to see if this would grow in it, with or without air

What is bacteria?

300

This is the main difference between Archaea and Bacteria

What is Bacteria can be found anywhere, but Archaea thrives in extreme environments?

300

This is the first and second part of an organism's scientific name

What are the genus and species?

300

This is the process of change as an organism becomes more complex

What is development?

300

This is the ability to make objects appear larger than they are

What is magnification?

300

All living things need to maintain stable internal conditions, also know as this

What is homeostasis?

400

This is the most abundant chemical in cells

What is water?

400

This scientist first saw cells in cork and named them after small rooms that monks use

Who is Robert Hooke?

400

This kingdom of Eukarya can be multicellular or unicellular and heterotrophs or autotrophs

What are protists?

400

These are the three domains of life

What are Eukarya, Bacteria and Arhaea?

400

This is another name for the "brain" of the cell

What is the nucleus?

400

This is the name for the lenses that come in three different magnification powers and can be changed while using a microscope

What are the objective lenses?

400

This is the kingdom that consists of eukaryotic, multicellular organisms that can make their own food

What are plants?

500

These are the six characteristics all living things share

What are: made of cells, similar chemicals, use energy, respond to stimulus, grow/develop, reproduce?

500

These are the three ideas in the cell theory that Schleiden, Schwann and Virchow devloped

What are 1- all living things are made of cells, 2- cells are the basic unit of all life, and 3-all cells are produced by other cells?

500

Organisms are placed into domains and kingdoms based on these three things

What are number of cells, type of cells and ability to make food?

500

This is the list of the eight levels of classification, from most broad to most specific

What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?

500

This is a change in an organism's environment that causes a reaction

What is a stimulus?

500
This is the total magnification of a light microscope with an eyepiece with 10x magnification and an objective lens with 40x magnification

What is 10 x 40 or 400x?

500

These are the two kingdoms that contain only heterotrophs

What are animals and fungi?

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