Chars of Living Things
Organize, Grow, and Develop
Reproduce, Energy
Stimuli, Homeostasis
Cell Theory
Viruses
100
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction (or DNA)?
100
This is described as making more or bigger cells
What is growth?
100
This is needed by organisms for sleeping, thinking, eating, and moving.
What is energy?
100
What is another name for Homeostasis?
Balance / Maintain Internal Condition
100
A _____ is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
100
These features are shared by all viruses
What is a strand of genetic material within a protein coat>
200
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Development?
200
This level of organization is made of different tissues
What are organs?
200
This is the process by which one or more organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction?
200
This is something that causes an organism to respond
What is a stimulus?
200
All organisms are made of _______.
What is Cells?
200
Which one is biggest in size? Bacterium or virus?
Bacterium
300
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimuli?
300
If an organism is made of many cells, it is this.
What is multicellular?
300
This is how unicellular organisms reproduce.
What is asexual reproduction?
(Splitting and making a copy of themselves.)
300
Your body regulates its temperature by doing this.
What is shivering, sweating, or changing blood flow?
300
This scientist concluded that all plants are made of cells.
Who is Matthias Schleiden?
300
Can viruses carry out metabolic functions such as taking in nutrients and releasing waste to survive?
No!
400
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a Homeostasis?
400
Growth in multicellular organisms is mostly due to an increase in the _______ of cells.
What is number?
400
This describes all of the chemical reactions that occur within a living thing.
What is metabolism?
400
When Homeostasis is not maintained, this can happen to the organism.
What is gets sick or dies?
400
This part of Cell Theory states that maggots will not spontaneously generate on cooked meat in a closed jar.
What is "All living cells are produced by other living cells"?
400
This stage of infection is described in the photo
What is the lysogenic cycle
500
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation or evolution?
500
When a unicellular organism grows, rather than increasing the number of cells, the organism simply does this
What is its cell increases in size?
500
This mode of reproduction involves the fusion of gametes
What is sexual reproduction?
500
Many animals migrate as a response to this stimulus.
What is a change in weather/seasons?
500
This scientist discovered microscopic organisms
Who is Anton Leeuwenhoek?
500
Although viruses are not living things, they do have these two characteristics of life.
What are DNA/RNA and evolution?
600
This is the correct sequence of organizational structures in multicellular organisms.
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism?
600
This type of asexual reproduction is used by bacteria
What is binary fission?
600
These are the three tenets of the cell theory
- All living things are composed of cells.
- Cells are the basic units of structure and function for living things.
- All cells come from pre-existing cells. Also, organisms grow by “adding on more cells” NOT by increasing the size of their cells