The little parts of a cell that each serve a different function in the life of the cell.
What is an organelle?
100
True or false: all microorganisms are harmful to humans?
What is false?
100
A trait that involves part of a living thing's body.
What is a physical trait?
200
After an animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
200
Once a plant is classified in the plant kingdom, what trait is used to classify it in the phylum?
What is vascular or non vascular plants? or Veins or no veins?
200
Name two organelles that are found in both plant and animal cells.
What are cytoplasm, mitochondria, nucleus, cell membrane, or vacuole.
200
Name two jobs microorganisms to that help people.
What are fighting bad microorganisms, turning milk to cheese or yogurt, making bread rise, providing oxygen from the ocean, clean our water, clean up oil spills.
200
A trait that involves how a living thing acts.
What is a behavioral trait?
300
Once an animal is classified in the animal kingdom, what trait is used to classify it next?
What is a backbone or no backbone?
300
A plant with veins is a ___ plant?
What is vascular?
300
The organelle that controls the function of the other organelles in both a plant or animal cell is ___.
What is the nucleus?
300
Which type of microorganism is the most common?
What is bacteria?
300
A trait that parents could not help passing to offspring.
What is an inherited trait?
400
What trait to scientists use to determine that a worm and an elephant are not classified together?
What is a worm has no backbone and an elephant does?
400
What are the two types of plant tissue we studied?
What are xylem and phloem?
400
Name two organelles that are found in a plant cell, but not in an animal cell.
What are chloroplasts and cell walls?
400
What are the three possible shapes for microorganisms?
What are rods, spirals or balls?
400
A trait you have received after birth.
What is an acquired trait?
500
What trait could you use to classify a fish with a raccoon?
What is they both have a backbone?
500
What is the difference between xylem and phloem?
Xylem carries water and nutrients to the rest of the plant from the roots. Phloem carries water and nutrients from the leaves to the plant cells.
500
Explain why a plant cell has a cell wall, but an animal cell does not have a cell wall.
A plant cell needs cell wall to help give the plant its structure. Without a cell wall plants would not stand up on their stems. An animal has bones or other body parts to give it structure, so the animal's cells do not need cell walls.
500
In America, how do most people come into contact with harmful microorganisms and get sick?
What is food that has not been prepared properly?
500
He figured out that parents can pass traits to their offspring without displaying that trait themselves.