People
In the 1600's, who disproved spontaneous generation with experiments using meat in jars? He showed that maggots come from the eggs of flies.
Who is Francesco Redi?
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight(photosynthesis) or chemicals(chemosynthesis)
Who are Producers?
What is the scientific study of how organisms are classified?
What is taxonomy?
A tiny nonliving particle that enters a living cell and reproduces inside it.
What is a virus?
Vascular tissue that transports water up from the roots to the rest of the plant
What is Xylem?
He devised a 2-word naming system called binomial nomenclature and levels used to classify organisms today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
Organism that must feed on other organisms to obtain energy
Who are Consumers?
Sometimes unrelated organisms evolve similar characteristics because they are in similar environments. What is this called?
What is convergent evolution?
What is the process where bacteria pass genetic information between each other?
What is Conjugation?
This in plants is a system of tubes that helps transport food and water.
He further disproved spontaneous generation when he proved microorganisms will not grow unless there is contamination. He used a swan-necked flask.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
What are the maintenance of stable internal conditions called?
What is Homostasis?
This classification level is the most specific
What is species?
Bacteria reproduce asexually and use a process called this_______(grow, copy, divide, repeat)
What is binary fission?
Vascular tissue that transports food and nutrients
What is the Phloem?
In 1859 this person stated that individuals that are better adapted to their environments will mostly likely survive. This is called natural selection.
Who is Darwin?
Name the 7 things that all living things must be able to do or have.
Cells, organizations, chemicals of life, grow, develop, respond to surroundings, and reproduce.
The broadest category in Classification is DOMAIN. Name the 3 Domains.
Domain Eukarya
Domain Archaea
Domain Bacteria
Name 3 GOOD things bacteria can do.
clean up
Food production
Medicine
The body plan of an organism -how its parts are arranged?
What is SYMMETRY?
An organism that provides a source of energy suitable for a virus to live is called?
What is a host?
The false idea that living things could arise from non-living things is called?
Spontaneous Generation
Name the Classification categories in order from the largest (most broad ) to the smallest ( most specific)
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
Water is called this because it can DISSOLVE so many things?
What is the Universal Solvent?
Name the 3 types of mammals? HINT-how they are born... examples by eggs etc.
What are Placentals, Marsupials, and Monotremes?