Characteristics of Life
True or False: All living things eat.
What is false?
The _________ is the most basic building block of life.
What is a cell?
The definition of homeostasis.
What is the ability to maintain a stable internal environment?
Name two structures that both eukaryotes and prokaryotes have.
What is ribosomes? cytoplasm? cell membrane? DNA?
All eukaryotes have a ________ that holds all of the genetic information for the organism.
What is nucleus?
The study of all living things.
What is biology?
Who is credited as being the first person to view and draw pictures of plant cells?
Robert Hooke
True or False: An organisms ability to reproduce is one way that they are able to maintain homeostasis.
What is false?
The kingdom all prokaryotes belong in.
What is bacteria?
True or False: Protists, Fungi, Plants and animals are all examples of eukaryotes.
What is true?
A plant grows towards the light in order to receive the sunlight needed to go through the process of photosynthesis. This movement towards light is an example of ___________.
What is responding to their environment?
Schleiden was a German botanist who contributed which two parts of the cell theory?
A. All living things are made of cells
B. The cell is the basic unit of life
C. Cells come from pre-existing cells
What is A and B?
True or False: The ability to sweat in order to cool down your body temperature is an example of homeostasis.
What is true?
Fill in the blank
Eukaryotes are generally (smaller/larger) in size and (more/less) complex than prokaryotes.
larger, more
True or false: All eukaryotes are multicellular.
What is false? Some eukaryotes are unicellular.
All living things must be able to reproduce. Which kind of reproduction involves two sets of genetic information?
What is sexual reproduction?
This scientist was a pathologist who collected evidence to conclude that all cells come from pre-existing cells.
Who is Virchow?
A dog is overheating and begins to pant in order to cool down. What is the stimulus and what is the response?
A student wants to develop a model that places all forms of bacteria into the same classification. Which would be the best evidence that they have common characteristics.
A. Both are unicellular and contain a nucleus
B. Both are unicellular and lack a nucleus
C. Both are multicellular and lack organelles
D. Both are multicellular and reproduce asexually.
B. Both are unicellular and lack a nucleus
What happens to our cells as we grow and develop from infants to adults?
Our cells grow larger in number.
All living things must be able to reproduce. Which type of reproduction results in a genetic clone of the parent?
What is asexual reproduction?
Spontaneous generation is a mistaken idea that cells are produced "randomly" from nonliving matter. This idea is incorrect because cells ______________.
What is come from pre-existing cells?
Double Jeopardy!!!!!!
Which cell organelle is most important in maintaining homeostasis inside the cell?
What is the cell membrane?
Prokaryotic cells do not have a _______ that holds genetic information. Their DNA floats around in the cytoplasm.
What is nucleus?
Eukaryotes are organisms with cells that have ___________.
What is a nucleus and organelles?