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Vocabulary
Scientists & Experiments
Characteristics of
Living Things
Classification of
Organisms
6 Kingdoms
100
Organisms that make their own food. Ex. plants
What is an autotroph?
100
The first scientist to develop a classification system for organisms; he was a Greek scholar.
Who is Aristotle?
100
energy, water, living space, stable internal conditions
What are the basic needs of living things?
100
The process of grouping things based on their similarities.
What is classfication?
100
Organisms whose cells lack a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
200
The maintenance of stable internal conditions despite changes in the surroundings.
What is homeostasis?
200
He designed one of the first controlled experiments in which he concluded that decaying meat did not produce maggots.
Who is Francesco Redi?
200
The basic unit of structure and function; organisms can either be unicellular or multicellular.
What is cellular organization?
200
Aristotle's system of classification.
What were those that can fly, those that swim, and those that walk, crawl, or run?
200
Ex. bacteria that produce yogurt, bacteria that produces strep throat
What are eubacteria?
300
The process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism.
What is development?
300
He had a major impact on classification because of his theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
300
Either stimulus, a change in an organism's surroudnings that causes the organism to react, or response, an action or change in behavior.
What is response to surroundings?
300
Swedish scientist that expanded on Aristotle's ideas of classification to devise a naming system for organisms.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
300
Ex. slime molds
What are protists?
400
The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.
What is spontaneous generation?
400
Evidence from his experiment involving bacteria confirmed the idea that new bacteria may only appear when they are produced from existing bacteria.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
Ex. water, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids
What are the chemicals of life?
400
An organism's scientific name: genus and species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
400
How organisms are placed into kingdoms.
What are their type of cells, their ability to make food, and the number of cells in their bodies?
500
A series of paired statements that describe the physical characteristics of different organisms.
What is a taxonomic key?
500
They tried to recreate the conditions of early Earth's atmosphere and oceans and discovered that proteins are one of the building blocks of life.
Who are Harold Urey and Stanley Miller?
500
Organisms can produce offspring that are similar to the parents.
What is reproduction?
500
7 levels of classification
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
500
6 Kingdoms
What are Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals?