Alive or Not?
A characteristic of life where new organisms are produced.
What is reproduction?
Discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek after he made many improvements to microscopes, they were called "animalcules" early on.
What are bacteria?
Hans and Zacharias Janssen were Dutch spectacle makers who are credited with inventing the first _______________.
What is compound microscope?
Viewed a piece of cork under a microscope and saw what appeared to be little rooms, which he named cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
Thin layer that surrounds both prokaryotes and eukaroytes.
What is the cell membrane?
An example would be when a dog barks at a skunk, when a plant grows toward the sun, or when I sweat when I go outside in the summer.
What is a response to stimuli?
List the 5 different levels of organization in some multicellular organisms from the smallest to the largest.
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism?
Illumination means adding __________ to be able to view an object better through a microscope.
What is light?
Discovered that all animals are made up of cells.
Who is Theodor Schwann?
A single-celled organism that has no nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryote?
Term meaning to pass on traits from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
Compiled based on the work of multiple scientists. There were 3 parts and more have been added since.
What is cell theory?
Objects that are viewed under a microscope are __________ which means they appear larger than they actually are.
What is magnified?
Discovered that all plants are made up of cells.
What is Matthias Jakob Schleiden?
Examples of eukarytotes.
What are plants, animals, and fungi?
The sum total of all the chemical processes that occur within a living organism is known as __________.
What is metabolism?
Genetic material found in all cells.
What is DNA?
Found by multiplying the magnification of the objective lens by the magnification of the ocular (eyepiece) lens.
What is total magnification?
Discovered that all cells come from preexisting cells.
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
Examples of prokaryotes.
What are bacteria and archaea?
When an organism or species changes over time to make it more suited to its environment, it's known as ___________.
What is adaptation?
Organelle found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes and is the site of protein synthesis.
What are ribosomes?
As the quality of glass became better over the years, the ___________ improved. This means the objects became more clear and parts could be distinguished from other parts more easily.
What is resolution?
Known as the father of microscopy because he made many improvements to the early microscopes and the father of microbiology because he was the first to discover bacteria.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
A minimum of 3 similarities between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
What are they both contain DNA, ribosomes, cytoplasm, and have cell membranes?