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What is Life?
Potpourri
Classification
Modern Classification
6 Kingdoms
100
The basic unit of structure and function in an organism
What is a cell?
100
Thought to resemble the first organisms on earth.
What are archaebacteria?
100
He devised a two-part naming system for all organisms
Who is Linnaeus?
100
Hypothesized that species change over time and that organisms with similar evolutionary histories should be classified more closely together.
Who is Darwin?
100
The three domains of living things
What are archaea, bacteria, and eukarya?
200
The six characteristics of living things
What is cellular organization, chemicals of life, use energy, grow and develop, respond to surroundings, and reproduce?
200
Earth's early atmosphere lacked this important gas.
What is oxygen?
200
The two levels of classification used in binomial nomenclature.
What is genus and species?
200
Today scientists use this chemical of life to classify organisms
What is DNA?
200
The 6 kingdoms of life
What are archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals?
300
The four needs of living things
What is water, energy, living space, and stable internal conditions?
300
intestines, hot springs, ocean vents
What are places you'd find archaebacteria?
300
A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
300
The scientific study of how living things are classified
What is taxonomy?
300
Prokaryotes are lacking these
What are nuclei?
400
The idea that organisms can arise from nonliving things.
What is spontaneous generation?
400
Experiment that involves two tests that are identical except for one variable
What is a controlled experiment?
400
Language used for scientific naming
What is Latin?
400
Traces of ancient organisms preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
400
the "odds & ends" kingdom
What is Protista?
500
The most abundant chemical of life
What is water?
500
The most abundant gas present in the atmosphere today.
What is nitrogen?
500
The eight levels of classification from broadest to most specific.
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
500
A series of paired statements that describe physical characteristics of organisms
What is a taxonomic key?
500
prokaryotic, heterotrophs that absorb nutrients from decaying material
What are fungi?