Characteristics of Organisms 1
Characteristics of Organisms 2
Taxonomy 1
Taxonomy 2
Dichotomous Keys
100
Where do plants get their energy?
They make it using sunlight.
100
Living things ____ to changes in their enviroment.
respond
100
The study of how scientists classify organisms is called
taxonomy
100
What is the second level of human taxonomy, after animalia?
chordata
100
What does Dichotomous mean?
Two Parts
200
Plants are ___________, which means they provide their own food for energy
Autotrophs
200
one yeast cell ____ into two daughter cells to reproduce
splits
200
Levels of classification from broad to specific are ____, ______, _______, ________, __________, ___________, _________
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
200
Used as the first word in an organisms scientific name
Genus
200
Give one example of something that can be identified by a dichotomous key
threes, rocks, animals, minerals, jellybeans
300
Animals are __________, which mean they must find an external source of food
Heterotrophs
300
Name two characterists of living things
Respond, Grow, Reproduce, Have Cells, Have Complex Chemestry
300
The 6 kingdoms are _________, __________, ___________, ___________, ____________
Plants, Animals, Eubacteria, Protists, Fungi, Archeabacteria
300
Consists of all the organisms which are able to reproduce together and produce offspring of the same kind
species
300
What is the first rule of reading a dichotomous key?
Start at the beginning every time
400
What is the complex chemical process that living thing use to move energy?
Metabolism
400
Which kingdom have No Cell Walls
Animalea
400
Two ways that organisms are placed into kingdoms are: how they get _________, and the number of ________ they have
energy, cells
400
Used as the 2nd word in an organisms scientific name
Species
400
What is the second rule of dichotomous keys?
Follow the directions carefully
500
plants make their own food through a process called ________
photosynthesis
500
Which Kingdom are Eukaryotes and unicellular (mostly)
Protista
500
Eubacteria and Archeabacteria are separated by what difference
Whether or not they have peptidoglycan
500
Which part is always capitalized in the sciencetific name?
1st / Genus
500
What is the third rule of reading dichotomous keys?
When you have a scientific name, you are done.
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