This is the basic unit of structure and function in all organisms.
What is a cell?
100
This English scientist built a compound microscope, looked at slices of cork, and came up with the name "cells."
Who is Robert Hooke?
100
This is the layer of non-living material that supports and protects plant cells.
What is the cell wall?
100
This Swedish naturalist was responsible for the two-part scientific naming system still used to classify organisms today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
100
These are mostly uni-cellular organisms that lack a nucleus.
What are Prokaryotes?
200
This is producing offspring that are similar to the parents.
What is reproduction?
200
This Dutch businessman built a simple microscope and looked at animolecules in pond scum, blood of fish & frogs, and scrapings from teeth and gums.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
200
These are the factories that produce proteins.
What are ribosomes?
200
His theory of evolution stated that species gradually change over time, which was a major contribution to classification.
Who is Charles Darwin?
300
This is the process of change that occurs during an organisms lifetime in order to produce a more complex offspring.
What is Growth & Development?
300
This German scientist stated, "all plants are made of cells."
Who is Matthias Schleiden?
300
This is the brain of the cell, which is composed of nucleic acids and is bound by a nuclear envelope in Eukaryotic cells.
What is the nucleus?
300
This is the study of how living things are classified.
What is taxonomy?
300
This is the term used for organisms with the ability to make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
400
This is the ability to do work.
What is energy?
400
This German scientist was a friend of Matthias Schleiden, and he stated that all animals are made of cells, thus "all living things are made of cells."
Who is Theodor Schwann?
400
This is the powerhouse of the cell, as it breaks-down food molecules and provides energy to cell organelles?
What is the mitochondria?
400
This is the name of the two-part scientific naming system for classifying organisms.
What is binomial nomenclature?
400
Within the Domain Eukaryote, these are the four kingdoms we discussed during our weekly warm-up.
What are plants, animals, fungi & protists?
500
What are the four things organisms need in order to survive?
What is food, water, living space & homeostasis?
500
Nearly twenty years after Theodor Schwann's discovery, this German scientist wrote, "All cells come from other cells."
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
500
This is a passageway that transports proteins through the cell to the Golgi body.
What is the Endoplasmic reticulum?
500
Bombus pratorum is the scientific name for the bumble bee, Bombus is ___________________, and pratorum is ___________
What are Genus & Species?
500
This is the term given to the process by which bacteria reproduce asexually.