Life
All the living beings which inhabit the Earth.
Organisms that produce their own food
What are autotrophs?
the smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
Organisms made up of only one cell
What is unicellular?
Cells with the same function working together
What are tissues?
Can perform these vital functions: nutrition, interaction, and reproduction function. Are organized in cells and made up of certain chemical composition
What is a living being?
Organisms that obtain their food from other living beings or their remains
What are heterotrophs?
Another external cover outside the plasmatic membrane?
What is a cellular wall?
Organism made up of many different cells that developed from one initial zygot cell
What is multicellular?
Groups and sub-groups of living things (based on the
characteristics they share)
What are Taxonomic Groups?
Substances produced by living things
What are organic substances?
ONE living being produces identical COPIES of itself.
Use flagellum or pili to move
How does a prokaryotic cell move?
the four kingdoms PROTOCTIST, FUNGI, ANIMALS, and PLANTS
Which living things are made up of eukaryotic cells?
to categorise living things into groups of individuals according to common characteristics.
What is to classify?
Substances not produced by living things
What are inorganic substances?
nucleic acids, lipids, glucids and proteins
What are the types of organic substances?
the place where chemical reactions necessary for cellular functioning occur.
What is the cytoplasm?
groups of tissues working together
What are organs?
mineral salts and water
What are the types of inorganic substances?
taking water, CO2 and mineral salts from their environment to produce food using the sunlight and releasing oxygen (O2)
What is photosynthesis?
Two of these join to create a new living being
What is a gamete?
double cover that protects information
what is the nuclear membrane?
Organs acting together
What are systems?
The smallest taxonomic rank and the biggest taxonomic rank of the hierarchic taxonomic groups.
What are species and kingdom?