Characteristic & Classification of Life

Question 1

Five characteristics of life

Answer 1

Contain one or more cells
Reproduction
Growth and development 
Obtain and use energy
Respond to environment

Question 2

Purpose of creating a universal classification system

Answer 2

Every scientist from different parts of the world will know the animal by that name.

Question 3

Prokaryotes

Answer 3

Does not have a membrane around nucleus

Question 4

Eukaryotes

Answer 4

Has a membrane around nucleus

Question 5

Binomial nomenclature

Answer 5

Two name system for writing scientific names
First name: genes (capitalized)
Second name: species (not capitalized)

Question 6

Texonomy

Answer 6

The science of naming living things

Question 7

Classification

Answer 7

Assigning animals to different categories based on their similarities.

Question 8

Levels of classification

Answer 8

Kingdom
Phyla
Class
Order
Family
Genes
Species

Question 9

Animal kingdom

Answer 9

Eukaryotes
Multicellular
Heterotrophs

Question 10

Plant kingdom

Answer 10

Eukaryotes
Multicellular
Autotrophs

Question 11

Three structures plants have that animals do not

Answer 11

Cell wall
Large vacuoles
Chloroplasts

Question 12

Protists kingdom

Answer 12

Eukaryotes
Unicellular
Heterotrophs & autotrophs

Question 13

Fungi kingdom

Answer 13

Eukaryotes
Multicellular
Heterotrophs

Question 14

Eubacteria kingdom

Answer 14

Prokaryote
Unicellular
Autotroph & heterotroph

Question 15

Archaebacteria kingdom

Answer 15

Prokaryote
Unicellular
Autotrophs & heterotroph

Question 16

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| Viruses</p>

Answer 16

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	Parasite Reproduces in host cell</p>
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	Very small Not made of cells</p>
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	Nucleic acid surrounded by protein</p>

Question 17

Organic compound

Answer 17

Has carbon

Question 18

Inorganic compounds

Answer 18

Does not have carbon

Question 19

Four types of organic compounds found in all living things

Answer 19

Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Nucleic acid

Question 20

Miller-Urey experiment

Answer 20

Created an early Earth-like atmosphere
Amino acids were found
Offered a reasonable theory to how life is created

Question 21

Spontaneous generation

Answer 21

The belief that life arose spontaneous from non-living matter

Question 22

Biogenesis

Answer 22

Creating living things from other living things

Question 23

Redi experiment

Answer 23

Refutes spontaneous generation

If flies can reach the meat, they’ll ly

Question 24

Needham experiment

Answer 24

Supports spontaneous generations

Microorganisms reappeared after being killed (boiling chicken broth)

Question 25

Spallanzani experiment

Answer 25

Refutes spontaneous generation | Spontaneous generation cannot occur without air

Question 26

Pasteur experiment

Answer 26

Refutes spontaneous generation | Spontaneous generation can not occur without air bore microorganisms

Question 27

cell theory

Answer 27

all living things are made of cells cells are the basic unit of life cells come from pre-existing cells

Question 28

age of the earth

Answer 28

4.54 billion years

Question 29

algae

Answer 29

eukaryote kingdom protesta uni/multicellular autotrophs

Question 30

protozoa

Answer 30

eukaryote kindom protesta unicellular heterotrophs

Question 31

cocci

Answer 31

spherical bacteria

Question 32

bacilli

Answer 32

rod shaped bacteria

Question 33

sprilli

Answer 33

spiral shaped bacteria

Question 34

pseudopods

Answer 34

an extention of cytoplasm used for feeding in a one-celled organism

Question 35

| Are viruses living

Answer 35

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NO

does not reproduce by its self

not made of cells

cannot grow on its own

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Question 36

| decomposers

Answer 36

| heterotrophs which feed on and breaks down dead organisms

Question 37

| endosymbiosis

Answer 37

the theory that the organelles of eukaryotic organisms where once living organisms.

a large cell engulfs a smaller cell

large cell and small cell begin to cooperate

Question 38

| Evidence for the endosymbiotic theory

Answer 38

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organelles have their own membrane

have their own DNA

can reproduce on their own

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