Characteristics of Life 1
Characteristics of Life 2
Characteristics of Life 3
Characteristics of Life 4
Characteristics of Life 5
100

The smallest unit of life.

Cell

100

An organism's tendency to maintain stable internal conditions

What is homeostasis?

100

An organism whose entire body consists of only one cell.

What is unicellular?

100

An organism that uses sunlight to produce its own energy for cellular respiration.

What is an Autotroph?

100

The only organelle that was visible in the cheeks cells you collected during the Cheek Cell Lab.

What is the Nucleus?

200

Humans eat food to obtain this essential component required to sustain life

What is energy?

200

This carbohydrate is required for cellular respiration

What is cellular respiration?

200

The set of instructions found inside the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.

What is DNA?

200

You play outside in the heat and you begin to sweat.  Identify the stimulus in this scenario.

What is An Increase in Body Temperature?


200

The product of cellular respiration.

What is ATP?

300

The branch of science that studies living things

What is Biology?

300

Blood is made up of 55% plasma (water, salts, proteins, fat) and 45% cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets) that work together to help maintain homeostasis.  Blood is, therefore, classified as this level of biological organization.  

What is a tissue?

300

True or False: The ability to breath is a characteristic of living things

What is False?

300

An organism made of more than one Eukaryotic cell.

What is Multicellular?

300

This organelle synthesizes proteins from amino acids.

What is the ribosome?

400

Natural selection and adaptation are essential components of this characteristic of life.

What is Evolution?

400

Mr. Lawyer conducts an experiment to test the effects of caffeine on betta fish.  The caffeine is this component of Mr. Lawyer's experiment.

What is the Independent or Manipulated Variable?

400
He was the first person to see and describe cells.

Who was Robert Hooke?

400

This organelle transports proteins throughout the cell.

What is the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum?

400

The two characteristics of life that distinguish a car from a living organism.

What are Growth and Reproduction?

500

This characteristic of life involves the combining of genes.

What is Reproduction?

500

True or False. Humans are made of prokaryotic cells.

What is False?

500

Control of temperature, pH, and blood sugar are examples of this process.

What is a Feedback Loop?

500

The part of the cell that keeps the cell together.  It was one of two parts of the cheek cells that were visible in the Cheek Cell Lab.

What is the Cell Membrane?

500
The Levels of Biological organization in order.

What are Cells, Tissues, Organs, Organ Systems, Organism?