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What is taxonomy?
The science of classifying organisms
Who was the first person to observe bacteria?
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
What is autotroph?
An organism that produces its own food.
What is eukaryote?
Give two types of fungi.
Yeast or mold
Organisms are classified into three domains.
Name them
Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya.
Who is known as the Father of Biology?
John Ray
What is heterotroph?
An organism that obtains food from an outside source.
What is one characteristic all protist and fungi have in common?
They are all eukaryotes.
Name a medicine derived from a mold.
Penicillin
There are four kingodms witihin the eukarya domain. Name them.
What is binomial nomenclature?
A two-part naming system that consists of genus and species
How Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek called the bacteria?
Animalcules
Animal-like, plantlike, fungus-like.
Animal-like protist are heterotrophs called?
Protozoa
Which environmental factors plants respond?
Water light, barriers, and gravity.
What is a prokaryote?
A unicellular microorganism that lacks a distinct nucleus.
What is tropism?
A positive or negative involuntary reaction of a plant to a stimulus.
Give and example of phototropism, and explain it.
Sunflower turning to face the sun.
What is ectotherm?
A cold-blooded animal whose body temperature fluctuates with the temperature of its environment.
How many plant species are there in the world today?
At least 2 million varieties of plants.
What is mayor difference between the bacteria and archaea domain?
They have different cell structure and chemical composition.
What is vascular?
Having a system of tubes to transport water and nutrients.
How do monocots differ from dicots?
Monocots have seeds with one cotyledon and dicots have seeds with two cotyledons
What is exoskeleton?
A hard, external covering of an animal.