Vocabulary
These organisms are made of one cell
What is unicellular?
This type of microscope allows scientists to see live organisms
What is a light microscope?
This is the largest grouping of organisms (doesn't necessarily show up in the mnemonic)
What is domain?
This is how many kingdoms there are
What is six?
These are the two main types of electron microscopes.
What are Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)?
These organisms are made of two or more cells
What is multicellular?
This type of microscope allows scientists to see a 2-dimensional image of a cell
What is a transmission electron microscope (TEM)?
This was one of the VERY first people to classify organisms
Who is Aristotle?
This is how many domains there are
What is three?
These are the two main types of stimuli
What are internal and external?
This is group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring
What are species?
This type of microscope allows scientists to see a 3-dimensional image of a cell
What is a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
These are the five basic rules for naming an organism
What is 1. genus name comes first, 2. first letter is capitalized, 3. species name comes second, 4. first letter is lowercase, 5. both names in italics?
This is the smallest unit of a living organism
What is a cell?
This is the "Father of Taxonomy"
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
This gives each organism a two-word scientific name
What is binomial nomenclature?
This person is credited as being one of the first people to DESCRIBE a cell after seeing it under a microscope
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
These are the six kingdoms
What are Plantae, Bacteria, Animalia, Protista, Archaea, and Fungi?
This is maintaining a stable internal environment even when the external environment is not stable
What is homeostasis?
These are the two main types of microscopes
What are light and electron?
This is a series of descriptions arranged in pairs that leads the user to the identification of an unknown organism
What is a dichotomous key?
This person is credited as being the person to give the cell its NAME
Who is Robert Hooke?
These are the seven levels of classification in order
What are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
These are the six characteristics of life
What are response, homeostasis, organization, growth and development, uses energy, and reproduction?
This is the organization of a multicellular organism
What is cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs, organs make up an organ system?