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Flagellates are also members of a large group of tiney organisms called_________?
Protists
Protists are not_______________.
What is animals?
Also accept- multicellular, plants, fungi, bacteria
What controls everything in a cell (the brain)?
What is the nucleus?
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
Ciliates are covered in hair-like structures called________________________________ that move the organism through water.
What is Cilia?
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
One of the Characteristics of Life that describes how organisms change with changes in their environment.
Sense and Respond to Changes in Environment
The part of the cell that controls what comes in and out ____________.
Cell membrane
High biodiversity increases the stability of what?
What is the ecosystem?
The type of cell division that organisms who reproduce sexually use.
meiosis
Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch biologist, discovered which type of organisms?
Unicellular organisms
What is the largest organ in your body?
What is your skin?
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
One organisms depend on a host organism in a way that harms the host.
What is parasitism?
Ciliates__________ constantly in their search of food.
swim
How many pairs of chromosomes does a human body contain?
What is 23
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose, using the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
After something dies, the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by these.
What is a decomposer?
The human body system that involves the heart, blood, veins, and arteries
What is the Cardio-vascular system?
What is osmosis?
Describe 4 practices that can protect the ecosystem in which we live?
List the organization of life, starting with individual and ending with biosphere.
Individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
group of simplest organisms without a nucleus are called...?
What are the 4 (or 5) steps of Natural Selection?
1. Organisms Over-reproduce
2. There is variation
3. Some traits are more suitable
4. Suitable traits accumulate
What are the three pieces of evidence that supports cell theory?
All living things are made of one or more cells.
Cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things.
All cells come from other cells.
Name three different patterns of inheritance
codominance
incomplet dominance
Under a strong microscope, you can see several kinds of cell structures called
_____________________ inside a cell
Organelles