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Classification
Experiments
Vocab
Characteristics of Living Things
Identify the Life Charactersitic
100

The broadest level of the classification system

What are Kingdoms?

100
This is the variable that is changed or manipulated in the experiment.
What is the independent variable?
100
The group in an experiment that receives the change in the independent variable.
What is experimental group?
100
An organism that has only one cell.
What is unicellular?
100
A turtle finds and eats a piece of watermelon.
What is obtaining and using energy?
200

The scientific study of how living things are classified.

What is Taxonomy?

200

The group that receives all of the same conditions, except the change in the independent variable.

What is the control group?

200
The type of reproduction that is essentially cloning as it involves only one parent.
What is asexual?
200
Reproduction that involves two parents or two separate cells joining together.
What is sexual reproduction?
200
A butterfly egg becomes a caterpillar and then a butterfly.
What is growth and development?
300

Lions, Tigers, Kitty cats....are all classified as "Felines". This Taxon group is just before the Genus. 

What is Family?

300
The variable that is measured, the outcome/result.
What is the dependent variable?
300

Tiny structures found inside animal and plan cells.  The term translates to "miniature organ"

What is organelle?

300
The process of maintaining a relatively stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
300
All four-limbed animals have the same bones in the same order in their forearm because their ancient common ancestor had this pattern.
What is change over time/evolution?
400

The name two word naming system.

What is What is BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE??

400
The type of data that involves numbers is called _______________and the type that is descriptive is called_________________.
What is quantitative and qualitative?
400
A well tested idea that summarizes many experiments and hypotheses. Capable of accurately predicting any and all new situations that fall within its scope.
What is a Theory?
400
Anything that causes a reaction in an organism.
What is a stimulus?
400
A plant's leaves are angled towards a light source.
What is response to the stimulus/environment?
500

The scientist who developed binomial nomenclature.

Who is CAROLUS LINNAEUS?

500
Give two examples of controlled/constant variables in an experiment where you are altering the amount of water given to a plant.
What is light, temperature, soil, food, species used, location, etc.?
500

The meaning of the term endosymbiosis.

What is a symbiosis (relationship between two organisms) in which one lives inside the other?

500
All of the chemical reactions that take place in an organism that allow it to break down food for energy.
What is metabolism?
500
A cat gives birth to a litter of kittens that look like a combination of her and her mate (2 characteristics).
What is reproduction and genetic material/DNA?