This term means an organism is able to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
100
Francesco Redi conducted a controlled experiement which disproved the false theory of ___________ ___________.
What is spontaneous generation?
100
This kingdom contains mulitcellular eukaryotes who are heterotrophs, and includes humans.
What is kindom animalia?
100
In the seven levels of classification, what is the topmost level, which is the most general category?
What is Kingdom?
100
A stimulus to an organism's environment will cause a ______ in the organism.
What is response?
200
This is the process of an organism becoming more complex.
What is development?
200
This scientist created the scientific naming system called "binomial nomeclature".
Who is Linnaeus?
200
This kingdom was the earliest to form in Earth's history, and most of its members can be found in oceans, hot springs, or sometimes even in your intestines!
What is archaebacteria, or bacteria?
200
What is the most specific of the 7 levels called?
What is species?
200
Give an example of an autotroph.
What is a plant?
300
This is the dense portion of a cell that contains nucleic acid.
What is a nucleus?
300
After studying finches on the Galapagos Islands, this man devised the theory of evolution.
Who is Darwin?
300
This kingdom includes slime molds and other unicellular eukaryotes.
What is kingdom protista?
300
The first part of an organisms scientific name is called its _________.
What is Genus?
300
What do you call the study of how living things are classified?
What is taxonomy?
400
A group of organisms that can mate with one another and reproduce is called....
What is a species?
400
This man was the first to categorize species into 3 categories: those that fly, those that swim, those that walk or crawl.
Who is Aristotle?
400
All members of this kingdom are autotrophs and are food for all the heterotrophs on Earth.
What is kingdom plantae?
400
When using a taxonomic key, what step must you always start at?
What is step one?
400
These are traces of ancient organisms preserved in rock.
What is a fossil?
500
This is an experiement in which there are 2 tests identical in every way but one.
What is a controlled experiment?
500
These 2 men experimented to find out what the conditions of early Earth were like and created proteins without oxygen being present.
Who were Urey and Miller?
500
Mushrooms and other members of this kingdom feed on dead and decaying plants and animals.
What is kingdom fungi?
500
List the 7 levels in order from most general to most specific.
What are: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
500
In class we used this tool to classify pine trees and mammals.