Classification
These organisms get nutrients and energy by consuming other organisms.
What are Heterotrophs?
The first word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
What is the genus?
Bacteria combine nitrogen from the atmosphere with hydrogen to make ammonia (NH3) in the soil.
What is nitrogen fixation?
Animals without a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
What are the levels in classification?
The two parts to a scientific name
Genus + Species
Autotroph, cell wall made of cellulose
Plantae
Conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas, which is released back into the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
Plant that makes fruits and flowers.
What is an angiosperm?
Archaea and Bacteria are both this type of cell.
What are prokaryotic cells?
What is the purpose of scientific naming in biology?
To provide a universal language for scientists to communicate about organisms
Kingdom that include unicellular organisms with a nucleus, can be plant-like, animal-like or fungi-like.
Kingdom Protista
Absorption of nitrogen into organic compounds by plants.
What is assimilation?
The waxy layer on the top of leaves.
What is a cuticle?
The highest, the broadest, level of classification in the system.
What is Domain?
Organisms with the same species name are always closely related (T/F)
False
These are the six kingdoms for organisms.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia?
Production of ammonia by bacteria during the decay of organic matter.
What is ammonification?
Divisible into two symmetrical halves.
What is bilateral symmetry?
Prokaryotes lacking peptidoglycan in their cell walls
What are the archaea?
Production of nitrates and nitrites from ammonia (NO3) by bacteria.
What is nitrification?
Animals that maintain a constant body temperature throughout environmental changes.
What is an endotherm?