Characteristics of Life
All living things are made of these basic units
What are cells?
This part of the microscope holds the slide in place
What is the stage?
Viruses must infect this to replicate.
What is the host cell?
This is the biggest level of classification (for our class)
What is kingdom?
This kingdom includes multicellular organisms that perform photosynthesis
What is Kingdom Plantae?
The term for all chemical reactions that convert food into energy
What is metabolism?
This part of the microscope is used to look through and usually has 10x magnification
What is the eyepiece?
This word describes how viruses multiply using the host's mechanisms
What is replication?
This two-word naming system is used to identify species
What is binomial nomenclature?
This kingdom includes organisms that that absorb nutrients from dead matter
What is Kingdom Fungi?
This characteristic explains why a population of organisms changes over generations
If the eyepiece is 10x and the objective lens is 10x, what is the total magnification?
What is 100X?
Viruses are made of genetic material and this protective protein outer layer
What is the capsid?
The two classification levels needed for binomial nomenclature.
What is genus and species?
These single-celled organisms live in extreme environments
What is Archaebacteria?
This process allows organisms to maintain a stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
Total magnification is calculated by multiplying these two components
What is the eyepiece and objective lens?
This term is a characteristic of life and describes how viruses change over time, making them hard to treat.
What is evolution?
These diagrams show evolutionary relationships between organisms
What are phylogenetic trees?
This kingdom is known as the "junk drawer" of classification
What is Kingdom Protista?
The process where cells become specialized for different functions during development.
What is differentiation?
This part of the microscope supports the entire structure and rests on the table
What is the base?
This phase allows viruses to remain "asleep" inside host DNA until conditions are right
What is the dormant phase?
This pnemonic helps us remember the order of taxonomic ranks
What is "King Philip Came Over For Good Soup?"
These two kingdoms are prokaryotic and lack a nucleus
What is Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Archaebacteria?