Characteristics of Living Things
All living things are made up of these "basic units of life".
What are cells?
Plants do not perform this life function.
What is digestion?
The system used for grouping organisms into groups (known as taxons) was developed by this Swedish scientist.
Who was Carl Linneaus?
This Kingdom is characterized as multicellular, cells with no cell walls, cannot make their own food, require water and oxygen to survive, and reproduce sexually.
What is Kingdom Animalia. (Animal Kingdom)
(True or False) All animals make their own food.
False.
All living things obtain energy from this main energy source.
What is the sun?
This life function involves the removal of waste from the organism.
What is excretion?
The system of assigning organisms a scientific name that consists of two parts (the genus and the species) is called this.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This Kingdom includes organisms such as insects, birds, and mammals.
What is the Kingdom Animalia. (Animal Kingdom)
This is one of the two major groups of animals that is characterized as having a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
(True or False) All living things must have the ability to walk, swim, or fly.
False
Organisms (such as animals) have this system to control the life functions of control and coordination.
What is the nervous system?
This is the number of domains the current classification system divides ALL living things into.
What is three domains?
This Kingdom includes organisms who are multicellular and whose cells contain chloroplasts which enable the organism to make their own food.
What is the Kingdom Plantae? (The Plant Kingdom)
These "simple" animals account for 95% of all animals on earth and are characterized as not having a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
A group of organisms that are so similar that they can reproduce with one another is known as this.
What is a species?
If organisms are unable to to perform this life function, they will eventually die out.
What is reproduction?
Name the eight taxons from largest (most inclusive) to smallest (most exclusive)
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
What is the Kingdom Fungi?
This phylum includes ALL the vertebrates.
What is the Phylum Chordata?
Multicellular organisms are made of many cells while unicellular organisms are made of only one cell.
These TWO life functions involve movement. One is the movement of substances within an organism. The other is the movement of an organism in its environment. (Provide the name of BOTH life functions).
What is circulation and locomotion?
These are the four characteristics scientists consider when classifying organisms.
What is internal structures, external structures, embryology, and genetics?
These are the THREE reasons why taxonomy is important.
1. It helps keep track of all living thigs. 2. It makes it easier to study all living things. 3. It helps assign organisms a universally accepted scientific name.
This Phylum includes animals with suction-cup like feet and 5-part radial symmetry.
What is the Phylum Echinodermata?