Living Things & Classification

Kingdoms

100

What Kingdom is very complex and have organisms that are heterotrophs and multicellular.

Animalae

200

This Kingdom contains multicellular heterotrophs that decompose once living material to feed.

Fungi

300

Monera is a very simple Kingdom.  It contains organisms that are unicellular such as __________.

Bacteria

400

Paramecium is heterotrophic, Euglena is autotrophic, but they both are ___________, because they belong in the Kingdom Protista

Unicellular

500

Plantae is a Kingdom that is complex due to being multicellular.  They make their own food so that makes them _____________.

Autotrophic

Scientists

100

_______ set up an experiment with flasks and broth to help people understand that living things do NOT come from non-living things.

Louis Pasteur

200

Greek Philosopher that first classified living organisms known at the time?

Aristotle

300

Scientist that classified organisms and gave them scientific names.

Linnaeus

400

Describe Redi's control group.

Jar with meat in it and a cloth top that didn't let flies in, but did let air in.

500

This scientist sailed around the world and studied fossils and animals and concluded that animals have changed over time to survive.

Charles Darwin

Classifying Organisms

100

What names of classification make up the scientific name?

Genus species

200

The scientific study of how organisms are classified is called.

Taxonomy

300

The 2 words of genus and species form the scientific name.  This is called B___________ N__________.

Binomial Nomenclature

400

The category of classifying organisms that is before Genus.

Family

500

What comes after Kingdom in the classification system?

Phylum

Classifying Organisms #2

100

Evolution is the change over ________.

Time

200

The ability of species to be adapted to their surrounding environments for survival.

Natural Selection

300

Type of evolution where unrelated organisms evolve similar characteristics.

Convergent

400

The maintenance of stable internal conditions to live and survive is called ___________

Homeostasis

500

Using a taxonomy key to identify living things compare 2 different ____________ per line of information.

Characteristics

Living Organisms

100

Most basic unit of life is called a __________.

Cell

200

A prokaryote is an organism with no _________.

Nucleus

300

The incorrect theory of living things come from non-living things is called

Spontaneous Generation

400

If an organism responds to change in its environment such as increased wind, the wind is a ___________.

Stimulus

500

All organisms __________, develop, and ________.

Grow, Reproduce