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Characteristics of Life
Characteristics of Life
Robert Hooke Childhood and Education
Robert Hooke's Accomplishments
Robert Hooke - Other Interesting Facts
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The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
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The genetic material that is passed down from a parent to you.
What is DNA?
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Robert impressed his father with these skills as a child.
What is drawing skills?
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The pendulum clock was greatly improved by this invention.
What is the anchor escapement?
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Robert Hooke's inventions and achievements in his adult life were influenced by something he liked doing during his childhood.
What is drawing?
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When you jump out of the way from a moving car.
What is response to stimuli?
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When living things grow in size or change into a different over the course of their life.
What is growth and development?
200
Robert took apart small instruments as a child.
What is clocks?
200
This improved the accurate time keeping for pocket watches.
What is the balance spring?
200
Something that can only be seen with a microscope.
What is Micrographia?
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When living things require material like food to function.
What is Metabolism?
300
When living things have offsprings.
What is reproduction?
300
The school in London that Robert Hooke attended when he was 13 years old.
What is Westminster School?
300
A screw that helped to get the specimen closer to the microscope.
What is a focusing mechanism?
300
The smallest unit of life, the cell, is named after this.
What is a room in a monastery?
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When living things try to maintain internal functions like their body temperature.
What is Homeostasis?
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When closely related organisms change over the time (for example over the course of the history of earth).
What is evolution?
400
The college that Robert attended when he was 18.
What is Oxford's Christ Church College?
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A mirror that reflected the light from an oil lamp to the specimen.
What is a water lens?
400
'Take nobody's word for it' was the motto of the Royal Society because of this.
What is the reason for scientific experiments?
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This is what DNA means.
What is genetic material that is passed on to an offspring?
500
This is what homeostasis means.
What is a balance that all living things try to maintain?
500
These are the languages Robert Hooke learned when he went to Westminster School at the age of 13.
What is Greek and Latin?
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This is the job Robert Hooke held for 40 years in London.
What is a curator for the Royal Society?
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These are the first known microorganisms that were discovered by Hooke.
What is microscopic fungi?