Characteristics of Life
Smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
Made up of many cells.
What is multicellular?
A branched diagram that shows how organisms are related.
What is a cladigram?
A series of questions with two possible answers that is used to identify organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
The kingdom includes squirrels.
What is Animalia?
Ability to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
Living things making new living things like themselves.
What is reproduction?
Linnaeus used these to classify living things?
What are similar structures?
A naming system that gives each organism a two-word scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Mushrooms belong to this kingdom.
What is Fungi?
Process of becoming larger by adding cells and/or by increasing cell size.
What is growth?
Made up of one cell.
What is unicellular?
Ursus arctos is this type of name.
What is scientific?
A group of similar species.
What is genus?
This type of microscope is used to observe the movement of a living cell.
What is a compound microscope?
Adjusting to changes in internal and external environments.
Where a tree gets energy from.
What is the Sun?
The term that means "a group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring."
What is species?
Trees are members of this kingdom.
What is Plantae?
Electrons pass through an object in this type of microscope.
What is a TEM (transmission electron microscope)?
Having specialized structures with specialized functions.
What is organization?
Something that has all the characteristics of life.
What is an organism?
Which is not a kind of evidence used in systematics-
Cell type, Presence of "red blood", or
Common ancestry?
What is presence of "red blood"?
A way of classifying organisms that uses all the evidence known about organisms.
What is systematics?
This type of microscope is best for studying the details on an objects surface.
What is an SEM (scanning electron microscope) microscope?