Terms and Definitions 1
A method of sorting things according to shared qualities or characteristics.
What is classification?
A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
All living things contain heriditary information in this instruction manual that enables life to continue through reproduction.
What is DNA?
The language generally used when classifying organisms.
What is Latin?
The study of living things.
What is biology?
An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organisms.
What is a decomposer?
A cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
All living things use ______________ and get this from their __________________.
What are energy and surroundings?
King Philip's Class Ordered Frozen Grape Sodas
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
The study of animals and how they live.
What is zoology?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
A method of classifying organisms into their various taxa.
What is taxonomy?
All living things chemically regulate their _________________ so it is stable.
What is their internal environment?
By using two Latin-based categories, Linnaeus' _________________ and _________________ system is called binomial nomenclature.
What are genus and species?
The study of a living organism's structures.
What is anatomy?
The ability of an organism to regulate chemically to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
A means by which living organisms ensure that their kind will continue.
What is reproduction?
All living things can sense changes in their ______________ and respond to those changes.
What are their surroundings?
Linnaeus took his two-named organisms and then grouped them into 1-2 large categories--kingdom____________ and kingdom ________________.
What are kingdoms Plantae and Animalia?
the study of the function of a living organism's structures.
What is physiology?
An alternative system of classifying life that seeks to figure out the kinds of creature God specifically created on earth.
What is baraminology?
Special structures that living things have that sense the conditions of their internal or external environments.
What are receptors?
All living things are made up of these.
What are cells?
An alternative system of classifying life that makes an effort to figure out the kinds of creatures God specifically created on Earth.
What is baraminology?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
The two groups that make up the side rails or backbone of DNA.
What are the phosphate and sugar groups?
The four nucleotides that make up the rungs of the ladder in DNA.
What are guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine?
The cells usually do this before they divide.
What is grow?
_________________ _________________ came up with a simple, practical method of classification.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
The study of how organisms interact with their surroundings.
What is ecology?