Kingdoms and Classifications
The kingdom which is made of prokaryotic organisms
What is kingdom Monera?
The name for the way fungi breaks down its food.
What is extracellular digestion?
The science of classifying organisms
What are taxonomy?
The father of genetics
What is Gregor Mendel?
All members of kingdom Plantae are _______trophs
What are autotrophs?
This kingdom is made of multicellular eukaryotic organisms that are producers
What is kingdom Plantae?
The part of the fungi, found underground, that helps with digestion.
What is the mycelium?
A systemized set of questions/answers that is used to identify the species of an organism
What is dichotomous/biological key?
You can determine the possible traits of offspring of two parents by drawing a ____________ square.
What is a Punnett?
The type of tissue that carries food and water in a plant
What is vascular?
This kingdom is made of multicellular eukaryotic organisms that are consumers
What is kingdom Animalia?
The type of protist we studied that had pseudopods for movement and engulfing its prey.
What are amoebas?
An organism that must eat other organisms for food is ________trophic
What is heterotrophic?
The location in a cell where most of the energy (ATP)is created.
What are mitochondria?
The process allowing water to flow up in a tree (root to leaf)
What is cohension-tension?
This kingdom is made of multicellular eukaryotic decomposers.
What is kingdom Fungi?
Hair-like structures that paramecium use to help them move through water
What are cilia?
The seven levels of classification (from biggest to smallest)
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genius, Species
What is the acronym for the six organic elements?
What is CHONPS?
The type of development that occurs in an egg.
What is oviparous?
This kingdom is made of mostly unicellular eukaryotic organisms. It is sometimes nicknamed the junk-drawer kingdom because of the variation in its species.
What is the kingdom Protista?
The part of the mushroom that we can see above ground is called the...
What is the fruiting body?
Name the five characteristics of life.
1. All life forms contain DNA.
2. All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it to energy which 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 macromolecules?
What are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and amino acids?
The five classes of vertebrates
What are fish, mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians?