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Papa Darwin
Thy Kingdom Come
Binomial Nomenclature?
Dead or Alive?
The Mixed Bag
100
A gradual change in a species over time
What is evolution?
100
Members of this domain lack a nucleus in their cells
What is domain bacteria?
100
Organizing substances according to their similarities
What is classification?
100
Reproduction that involves only one parent, resulting in offspring that are identical to the parent
What is asexual reproduction?
100
In a controlled experiment, the one factor that the scientist changes
What is the manipulated variable?
200
Similar organisms that are NOT related
What is convergent evolution?
200
All organisms belonging to this kingdom are autotrophs
What is the plant kingdom?
200
The scientific study of how organisms are classified and named
What is taxonomy?
200
The chemicals of life
What are lipids, nucleic acids, proteins, water, carbohydrates?
200
The dense area of the cell that contains nucleic acids
What is the nucleus?
300
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce
What is natural selection?
300
The members of this kingdom mostly feel by absorbing nutrients from dead or decaying organisms.
What is kingdom fungi?
300
As you move down the levels of classification, the number of organisms in each group ____________ (increases or decreases)
What is decreases?
300
The body sweats in an attempt to cool internal temperatures. This is an example of ______________.
What is homeostasis?
300
An organism that lacks a nucleus
What is a prokaryote?
400
To determine whether two organisms are related, scientists may compare this in an organisms cells
What is their chemical makeup?
400
The kingdom in which you would find marine dinoflagellates
What is kingdom protists?
400
The broadest, least specific level of classification of organisms
What is a domain?
400
Organisms break down and build up materials during this process
What is metabolism?
400
Organisms that make their own food
What are autotrophs?
500
A homologous structure that is shared by all organisms in a group
What is a shared derived characteristic? (p. 194)
500
The reason bacteria and archaea are placed in separate kingdoms
What is a differing chemical makeup?
500
The smallest group in Linnaeus's system of classifying organisms
What is a species?
500
The process of change during an organism's life that results in a more complex organism
What is development?
500
The three domains of life in the modern system of classification
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya