Famous Scientists
fill in the blank: the ________ experiment
MillerUrey
spontaneous generation
the belief of living things coming from non-living things like mud or grain
Stimuli is___
the reaction of an organism; a cat hearing a can opener and running towards it
How many animal kingdoms are there?
six
the smallest group is....
species
Greek scientist that made the first classification system
Aristotle (a-ris-tot-l)
"______ put decaying meat in jars, then covered half of them." Who did that and what was he testing for?
1. Redi
2. if flies didn't come from old meat
whats the fancy word for maintaining a healthy body?
homeostasis
the current classification system is called what?
systematics
A kingdom is...
the second largest group
"organisms with similar structures"
Linnaeus System
Pasteur proved spontaneous generation wrong by___
putting broth in S-neck flasks that were open to the air. The ones that were on their side were contaminated, while the ones upright were not
What do living things need?
a habitat and raw materials
tool to identify organisms
dichotomous keys
what was the MillerUrey experiment about?
Testing Alexander Oparin's hypothesis
Robert H. Whittaker said that there are how many kingdoms?
5-if you named one double the points you get (Fungi, Animalia, Monera, Protista, Plantae)
John Needham was wrong because....
he thought the contamination in the (unsealed) flasks developed spontaneously from it
what are that five things that all organisms do?
homeostasis, reproduction, use energy, grow, respond
is stimulus the same as stimuli?
stimuli is the plural word of stimulus
RANDOM WHIZ- what is the wolfs' scientific name?
lupus lupus
Without life, compounds are simple. Who belives this?
Alex Oparin
Primordial soup
"Alex Oparin hypothesized that energy from the Sun, lightning, and Earth's heat triggered chemical reactions early in Earth's history. The newly formed molecules washed into Earths ocean and became the soup."
name 3 things organisms can use as energy
cave walls, Sun, plants, meat, fruit, blood....kind of everything
2-word naming system Linnaeus invented
bionomial nomenclature
"Did King Philip Come Over For Good Soup?" What does this phrase mean?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species