This process involves ALL of the biochemical reactions that occur in a cell or organism. These chemical reactions provide energy and create substances that sustain life.
What is Metabolism
This term indicates a taxonomic nonoverlapping group that organisms are categorized in based on their mutual similarities.
What is a taxon
An acellular infectious agent or particle that is composed of either DNA or RNA
What is a Virus
Reactions which involve the synthesis of macromolecules by combining simpler molecules, using energy (ATP) in the process.
What is Anabolism
This is the highest and largest taxon in the taxonomic ranking hierarchy.
What is the domain
This group of microorganisms are prokaryotes, but don't have peptidoglycan in their wall and tend to live in extreme environments
What is Archaea
The ATP that is made during glycolysis is produced via this process.
What is substrate level phosphorylation
This is the two name system developed by Linnaeus
What is binomial nomenclature
Pasteur, through the use of the scientific method, discovered that it was this microorganism that turned grape juice into wine
What is Yeast
This hypothesis stated that living organisms could arise from non-living matter
What is Spontaneous Generation
A net gain of 2 molecules of ATP is made during this process.
What is glycolysis
This first name of the 2 name system of organisms is usually a noun in Latin.
What is the genus name
This organism was used in the first recorded successful vaccination
What is Smallpox
This process of involves the heating and subsequent cooling of a substance as a means of killing pathogenic organisms
What is Pasteurization
This scientist received funding to do research in order to discover what caused wine to spoil. He also put an end to the debate on Spontaneous Generation.
Who is Pasteur
A series of redox reactions in a membrane that generates ATP via chemiosmosis.
What is electron transport chain (ETC)
This individual created the 5 Kingdom system based on the morphological traits of organisms
Who is Robert Whittaker