What is it?
The sum total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism’s life functions
What is Metabolism?
Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants
What are Carnivores?
1. All life forms contain DNA.
2. All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from the surroundings and convert it into energy that sustains them.
3. All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.
4. All life forms reproduce.
What are the four criteria for life?
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is a Hypothesis?
The theory that living things can be formed from nonliving things
What is spontaneous generation?
The sum total of all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life.
What is Anabolism?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
What are Omnivores?
An organism is classified as a carnivore. Is it a heterotroph or an autotroph? Is it a producer, consumer, or decomposer?
It is a heterotroph and a consumer
A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.
What is a Theory?
The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.
What is Abiogenesis?
The sum total of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.
What is Catabolism?
Organisms that eat only plants.
What are Herbivores?
An organism has receptors on tentacles that come out of its head. If those tentacles were cut off in an accident, the life function would be most hampered.
What is sensing changes in the surroundings and responding to those changes?
The kingdom that contains organisms that are decomposers.
What is Kingdom Fungi?
A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bounded organelles.
What is Prokaryotic cell?
Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment.
What are Receptors?
Organisms that produce their own food.
What are Producers?
A parent and two offspring are studied. Although there are many similarities between the parent and the offspring, there are also some differences. The method in which these organisms reproduce.
What is sexual reproduction?
The science of classifying organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
A cell with distinct, membrane-bounded organelles.
What is a Eukaryotic cell?
The kingdom that contains multicellular organisms with eukaryotic cells that are heterotrophs but not decomposers.
What is Kingdom Animalia?
Organisms that are able to make their own food
What are Autotrophs?
The kingdom to which an organism that is a single-celled consumer made of prokaryotic cells belongs.
What is kingdom Monera?
Naming an organism with its genus and species name.
What is Binomial nomenclature?
A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units.
What are Species?