Characteristics of Life
Bacteria: Living or Not
What is living?
The 3 domains. (Spelling counts!!!!)
Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria
This medicine can only kill bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
What is homeostasis?
2 organisms in the same domain, kingdom, phylum, class, and order: closely related, completely different.
What is closely related?
Reasons to keep water clean for a pet, such as baby chicks. (name one)
Answers will vary.
-Bacteria can make chicks sick
-Water can have parasitic protists
An organism that must eat/consume food for energy.
What is a heterotroph?
The name for the theory that organisms could randomly spawn.
What is spontaneous generation?
The 2 part name that scientists use to classify organisms. (Spelling counts!)
What is binomial nomenclature?
Main difference between protist and bacteria cells.
Bacteria are prokaryotic (no nucleus)
Protists are eukaryotic (nucleus)
Characteristics of life that a robot could have.
What are respond to stimuli and use energy?
(Other answers accepted on case by case basis.)
Doing this prevents bacteria from forming on sanitized equipment.
Answers will vary, but must include something about a sealed container of some sort!
On page 453 of your book; this organism is the closest relation to the gray wolf. (fox, dolphin, bat, or cheetah)
What is the fox?
This type of microorganism has spores.
What is fungi?
Domain that anteaters belong to.
What is Eukarya?
Characteristics of life: Name 3
DNA, grow & develop, homeostasis, evolve, gain/use energy, made of cells, respond to stimuli, reproduce
The scientific name for an organism that is in the genus Hymenochirus and the species boettgeri. (Correct capitalization!)
What is "Hymenochirus boettgeri"?
Tail-like structure that some microorganisms use to move around.
What is flagella?
Scientific Name of this organism. (Correct capitalization.)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pilosa
Family: Myrmecophagidae
Genus: Myrmecophaga
Species: tridactyla
What is "Myrmecophaga tridactyla"?