Living things...
Living things ______ and ________
Grow and Develop
What do you call organisms made up of more than one cell?
Multicellular
What scientific instrument do you use to look at microscopic organisms?
A Microscope
What do you call the genetic material that contains instructions for making new organisms and carrying out all of the functions of a cell?
DNA
What kind of cells line organs like the mouth and esophagus?
Epithelial Cells
Living things are made of _________.
Cells
What kind of reproduction requires reproduction cells from 2 organisms?
Sexual Reproduction
At first we called them "Animalcules", now we call them __________.
Microscopic Organisms
What do you call the membrane that DNA is stored in in some cells?
The Nucleus
Euglena moves around its environment by using a whiplike structure called ___________.
a Flagellum
Living things do this either sexually or asexually.
Reproduce
What do you call an organism that gets energy by consuming other organisms?
a Heterotroph
What kind of cells do NOT have a nucleus?
Prokaryotic Cells
What do you call the organs of a cell?
Organelles
What was Robert Hooke looking at when he coined the phrase "cells"?
Cork
energy
Who coined the term "cells"?
Robert Hooke
What is the basic unit of life?
A Cell
About how many cells does a human have?
10 - 100 Trillion
Besides a nucleus, what is another organelle that a eukaryotic cell has, but a prokaryotic cell does not?
Mitochondria, Rough ER, Smooth ER, Golgi Body, Nucleolus
Living things respond to their _________.
environment. This is also called responding to stimuli.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek saw tiny living things in pond water and called them ____________.
Animalcules
What do you call an organism that is made up of only 1 cell?
Unicellular
What 2 main kinds of cells are there?
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic
Besides plants and animals, what other organisms are eukaryotes?
Fungi, Euglena, or Amoebas.