These organisms depend on other organisms for their food while other organisms are able to make their own food.
What are heterotrophs and autotrophs?
100
The vertebrates of the kingdom Animalia are classified in this phylum. (hint: Latin word for cord)
What is Chordata? (chorda - cord )
100
The three magnifications generally used on a student microscope.
What are 40x, 100x, and 400x?
100
Carrolus Linnaeus
Who is the person who developed the classification system?
100
What are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia
What are the Five Kingdoms?
200
A collection of atoms that all have the same number of protons.
What is an element?
200
These regulate the amount of water in a cell. (hint: Latin word for against)
What are contractile vacoles? (contra - against )
200
The dye/stain used to help make cells easier to view.
What is Methylene Blue Stain?
200
The name of Darwin's book which proposed the theory of evolution.
What is The Origin of Species?
200
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What is The Classification System?
300
A collection of atoms that all have the same number of protons.
What is an element?
300
Hypha that are not imbedded in the material upon which the fungus grows. (hint: the Latin word meaning "of the air")
What is Aerial hypha? (aerius - of the air )
300
The propeller for a protozoan as seen under the microscope.
What is the flagellum?
300
A prominent macroevolutionist in the late 1900's.
Who is Richard Dawkins?
300
The three basic shapes of bacteria
What are coccus, bacillus, and spirillum?
400
An association of living organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
400
The two terms one needs to know in order to properly name an organism. (Hint: Latin words for birth and appearance)
What are genus and species? (genus - birth and speciēs - appearance )
400
The rigid structure viewed on the outside of certain cells, usually plant and bacteria cells.
What is the cell wall?
400
The founder of modern genetics, he bred pea plants and noticed that there were definable characteristics passed down to offspring.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
400
An organism which has a certain characteristic that is always passed on to its offspring is said to have this.
What is True Breeding?
500
The science of classifying organisms.
What is taxonomy?
500
The reason we use Latin to name organisms.
What is Latin is a dead language and thus will never change. The meanings will remain the same throughout history.
500
At least three tools that are important when preparing a slide for observation under a microscope.
What are lens paper, slides, coverslips, eyedropper, Methylene Blue stain, and Iodine?
500
The famous scientist who demonstrated that even microorganism cannot spontaneously generate.
Who is Louis Pasteur? (1859)
500
The difference between microevolution and macroevolution.
What is The theory that natural selection can, over time, take an organism and transform it into a more specialized species of that (same) organism - microevolution; the hypothesis that processes similar to those at work in microevolution can over eons of time, transform an organism into completely different kind of organism - macroevolution?