Miscellaneous
This is an example of a unicellular organism.
What are bacteria, yeast, or some protists?
This is the term that means “a living thing”.
What is an organism?
All organisms—whether they are autotrophs or heterotrophs--use energy from this source.
What is food?
These are the four needs of all living things.
What are energy, water, living space, and stable internal conditions?
This is whether or not the theory of spontaneous generation is true or false.
What is false?
This is an example of an autotroph, and a heterotroph.
What is a plant, algae, or some bacteria (autotrophs), and what is an animal, fungi, some protists, and some bacteria (heterotrophs)?
This word means an “organism that is made of only one cell”.
What is unicellular?
This characteristic of all living things is taken care of either sexually or asexually.
What is reproduction?
This is what will happen if all of an organism’s basic needs are not met.
What is, “it will die”?
These are the two scientists who helped to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation.
Who are Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur?
This is asexual reproduction.
What is reproduction that only uses one parent, and the offspring are genetically identical to the parents?
This word means “an organism that is made of more than one cell”.
What is multicellular?
This is what all living things are made of.
What are cells?
These are what an organism’s living space provides.
What are, “a place to get food, water, & find shelter”?
In order to disprove spontaneous generation, two scientists both conducted this type of experiment.
What is a controlled experiment?
This is the function of nucleic acids.
What is, “to direct the functions of cells”?
This is the definition of autotroph.
What is “an organism that can make its own food”?
This is an example of a stimulus and response of a plant.
Ex. What is a plant bending toward sunlight?
Other answers are acceptable.
Because living space is limited, organisms may do this.
What is compete for it?
This was the manipulated variable from Redi’s experiment.
What is the cover on one jar of meat?
This is the organization of the following structures from least complex to most complex. Organs, cells, tissues, organism, organ system.
What are cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, & organisms?
This is the definition of heterotroph.
What is, “an organism that must eat other organisms for energy”?
This is the difference between growth and development.
What is, “growth is getting bigger, but development is becoming more complex”?
This is what “auto” means, what “hetero” means, and what “troph” means.
What are, “self”, “other”, and “feeder”?
This is why spontaneous generation is incorrect.
What is, “because all living things come from other living things”?