Criteria For Life
This criterion means “made of the basic units of life.”
What is made of cells?
The “instruction book” molecule found in cells.
What is DNA?
Sweating helps your body cool down. This is an example of _______.
What is homeostasis?
Classification means sorting things according to shared ________ or characteristics.
What are qualities? (or characteristics)
Plants use light energy to make sugar from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis?
Living things must be able to make more living things.
What is reproduce (reproduction)
What does the word hereditary mean?
What is passed from parents to offspring (inherited)?
Homeostasis helps living things maintain a ______ internal environment.
What is stable?
The Swedish scientist who developed the naming system we still use today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
The food plants make first during photosynthesis.
What is glucose (sugar)
This criterion means living things keep stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis (maintain stable internal conditions)?
Which DNA base pairs go together?
What are A–T and C–G?
The 6th criterion of life: all living things ______.
What is grow (growth)?
The two Latin-based categories used in binomial nomenclature.
What are genus and species?
The form plants often store food in leaves.
What is starch?
Name all 6 criteria for life.
What are DNA (hereditary information), use energy, respond to environment, made of cells, maintain stable internal conditions, grow?
The two-word naming system using genus + species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
In multicellular organisms, growth usually means an increase in the number of _______.
What are cells?
The order from broadest to most specific: Family, Species, Class, Genus, Order, Phylum, Kingdom.
What is Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species?
One part found in plant cells that animal cells do not have.
What is a cell wall or chloroplast