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Origins of Life
Characteristics of Living Things
Needs of Living Things
Chemistry of Living Things
Odds and Ends
100
He created the potential for life from inorganic matter.
Who is Stanley Miller.
100
The two way in which organisms reproduce.
What is sexual and asexual.
100
Humans get these two needs by eating and drinking.
What are food and water?
100
Containing both hydrogen and carbon.
What is organic?
100
CHNOPS stands for these elements.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus and Sulfur?
200
The false belief that life can spawn from non-life.
What is spontaneous generation?
200
Having more than one cell.
What is multicellular?
200
This need of living things can be found in the air or dissolved in water.
What is oxygen?
200
Not containing both carbon and hydrogen. For example carbon dioxide (CO2).
What is inorganic?
200
The scientific word for fat cells.
What are adipose cells?
300
He disproved spontaneous generation be experimenting with meat and flies.
Who is Redi?
300
Taking food into an organism.
What is ingestion?
300
Even ectothermic (cold blooded) animals need to maintain a relatively constant this.
What is body temperature?
300
The organic molecule category that contains sugars and starches.
What are carbohydrates?
300
The sum of all the chemical reactions in your body.
What is metabolism?
400
The Earth's age.
What is 4.5 billion years?
400
Removing waste from an organism.
What is excretion?
400
The reason overpopulation is a problem for certain species is that all living things need this.
What is living space?
400
The monomers of lipids.
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
400
Sugars, such as glucose, are the monomers of this organic molecule.
What are carbohydrates?
500
How long ago the first true cells developed.
What is 3.5 billion years.
500
All 5 characteristics of living things.
What are cells, reproduction, growth and development, respond to stimuli, and require and use energy.
500
The ability of an organism to keep conditions constant inside its body when the outside environment changes.
What is homeostasis?
500
The monomers of proteins.
What are amino acids?
500
The organic molecule type that makes up cell membranes, steroid hormones, and long term energy storage.
What are lipids?