Characteristics of Living Things
What is an organism that can mate and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce?
Species
What is an independent variable?
Something that you change in an experiment
What is the process of grouping things based on their similarities?
Classification
What are the two parts of the scientific name?
Genus and species
What is the part of an experiment that is tested or measured?
Dependent variable
Why do scientists use classification?
~to organize living things into groups that make them easier to study~
What are the seven characteristics of living things?
Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition
What part of an experiment is kept the same?
Control
Who is the father of Taxonomy?
Carolus Linnaeus
What is a change in the environment that causes an organism to respond?
Stimulus
The experiment is run without the independent variable being changed to get a baseline.
What is the name for the scientific study of how living things are classified?
Taxonomy
What is the word that describes the maintenance of stable internal conditions regardless of changes in the environment?
homeostasis
The control group does not change the I.V. and controls are other parts of the experiment that also do not change.
But the controls stay the same in every experiment and the control group only stays the same when you are not changing the I.V. (eventually you run the experiment with the I.V. changed)
What is the two part scientific name that includes an organism's genus and species
Binomial Nomenclature