4) Classification Of Living organisms Flashcards

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Movement

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The change of place or position of an organism or part of an organism

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Respiration

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Chemical reaction that involves the breakdown of food, to release energy

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Sensitivity

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the ability to detect a stimulus and show a response

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Growth

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Permanent increase in number and size of cells as well as dry mass

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Reproduction

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Making more of the same kind

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Excretion

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Getting rid of Waste products of metabolism, Excess substances, and Toxic materials. W.E.T

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Egestion

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Removal of undigested food out of the body in the form of faeces

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Nutrition

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Its the ability to obtain or make organic compounds needed to provide energy for growth and development

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Taxonomy

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placing living organism into categories on the basis morphology and anatomy to make it easier

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morphology and anatomy

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overall form and body shape
internal body structure by dissection

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Advantages of using DNA analysis

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accurate, faster, cheaper, and allow large scale identification and only trace sample used

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Classification

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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Over
Family
Genus
Species

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Genus

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group of organisms similar to each other but if they breed they produce an infertile offspring

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Species

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group of living organisms sharing the same characteristics and if they breed they produce a fertile offspring

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Mammals features

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1.Body covered by hair or fur
2.Give birth and young develop in
uterus of mother
3.mammary gland which
produce milk to feed their young
lactation
4.Ear pinna
5.Sweat gland
6.Diaphragm
7.Warm blooded
8.Heart with 4 chambers

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Reptiles features

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1.Dry Scaly skin
2.soft shelled eggs
3.Cold blooded

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Fish Features

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1.Scaly skin
2.Have gills
3.Have fins
4.Lay eggs with no shells, jelly coat
5.Cold blooded

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Amphibians Features

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1.moist skin no scales
2.Lay eggs with no shells, jelly like
3.Tadpoles live in water, but adults live
on land
4.Tadpoles have gills for gas exchange,
adult have lungs
5.Cold blooded

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Birds Features

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1.Body covered with feather
2.Have beak
3.Front limbs are wings
4.Lay eggs with hard shells
5.Warm blooded

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Insect Features

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1.3 Pairs of jointed legs
2.wings or none
3.body divided into 3 body
segments
4.1 Pair of antennae
5.1 pair of compound eyes

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Arachnids

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1.4 Pairs of jointed legs
2.Simple eyes
3.2 body segments

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crustaceans

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  1. 5 pair of jointed legs
  2. 2 body segments
  3. 2 pairs of antennae
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Myriapods

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  1. many body segments
  2. many jointed legs
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non flowering plants

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  1. ferns
  2. fronds
  3. reproduce asexually by spores
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flowering plants
1.Have stem ,root and leaves 2.Reproduce using flower and seeds 3.Seed produced inside ovary
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Dicotyledons
1.Seed with 2 cotyledons 2.Tapering main root with side branching roots 3.leaves with branching network of veins 4.Flower parts 4...5 5.Vascular bundle in ring 6.wide leaves
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Monocotyledons
1.Seed with 1 cotyledon 2.Roots grow out directly from stem, branching 3.Leave have parallel veins 4.Flower parts multiple of 3 5.Vascular bundle in stem arranged randomly 6. long narrow leaves
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role of decomposers
1.Removal of dead bodies form the environment 2.Retain nutrients back to soil
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prokaryote
1.Unicellular 2.No nucleus 3.No mitochondria 4.Cell wall...murine 5.Circular loop of DNA 6.Plasmid
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protoctist
1.They are unicellular or multicellular 2.Cells have nucleus 3.May have or may not have cell wall and chloroplast 4.Feed by photosynthesis and other feed on organic substances made by other organisms
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Virus
they don’t show typical features of living organisms. features: protein coat, nucleic acid(rna)