Animal Kingdom
Cells and DNA
Simple Organisms
Environmental Integration
Miscellania Scientifica
100

Includes sponges, mollusks, and echinoderms.

What are invertebrates 

100

The basic divison of cell types include ____ and ____.

What are eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.

100

Cannot move about, but grow by a mycelium.

What are fungi.

100

The complex combination of interrelated things, water, and habitat, each with its particular niche in the balanced network that exists in a given place.

What is an ecosystem.

100

 Strands of genes, which make up rod-shaped structures.

What are chromosomes.

200

The five main classes of vertebrates include (1) ____, (2) _____, (3) _____, (4) ______, and (5) ______.

What are mammals, amphibiansfishreptiles, and birds. (Need not be any particular order).

200

The four main elements of all cells include (1) _____, (2) _____, (3) _______, and (4) _____.

What are Ribosomes, genetic material like DNA/RNA, Cytoplasm, and Cell Membrane.

200

All monera are built out of this kind of cell.

What is prokaryotic (single-celled).

200

Organisms that change the sun's energy into food.

What are producers.

200

The five basic traits of living things.

What are Nourishment, Growth, Reproduction, Cellular, and Environmental Integrated.

300

You'd have to wake up early to find these animals, equipped with simple digestive systems, smell receptors, and the senses of taste and touch. 

What are worms.

300

The diffusion of water molecules in and out of cells is known as _____. 

What is osmosis.

300

Protozoa belong to this class of simple organisms.

What are protista.

300

The direct relationship between two specific organisms that helps maintain balance within an ecosystem.

What is symbiosis.

300

The Nine Rules for Empirical Science.

What are 1. Observe Carefully, 2. Tell the truth, 3. Classify using Similarity & Difference, 4. Be Precise, 5. Use Vivid Language, 6. Be Concise,  7. Focus on Structure, Function, Matter & Relation,  8. Be Neat  9. Be Hypothesis Focused.

400

Beetles, spiders, and crabs all belong to this class.

What are arthropods.

400

DNA stands for ________ ____.

What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid

400

Monera such as e coli bacteria can move about by means of this whip-like appendage.

What is a flagella.

400

Environments that include a variety of somewhat dry climates.  They include plants and animals like grasses, antelope, quail, and zebras, among others.  There are three subcategories: steppes, prairies, and savannas.

What are grasslands.

400

Multicellular organism with a true nucleus and cell walls composed of thousands of threads, but with no chloroplasts and therefore no photosynthesis. 

What are fungi.

500

The egg-laying platypus and echinda both belong to this class of animals.

What are mammals.

500

You cross-breed green and yellow peas. Yellow has genotype Yy, and Green has genotype yy. Y is the dominant genotype. How many of the offspring plants will be green?

What is %50, from dominant genotype Yy.

500

This red algae is a protist that provides sea otters with shelter and is used to wrap sushi. 

What is nori. 

500

The three stages of the nitrogen cycle.

What is: (1) decomposers break down organisms, releasing a substance into the environment. (2) some of the substance is absorbed by plant roots. (3) some of the substance is released as a gas into the environment.

500

The process of cell division that is found only in reproductive parts of an organism.  It has two phases and produces four daughter cells that each contain half of the DNA of the parent and are non-identical.

What is meiosis.