classifying life

Question 1

whats the definition of life

Answer 1

homeostasis
organization
metabolism
growth
adaptation
response to stimuli
reproduction

Question 2

explain the characteristics of viruses

Answer 2

RNA and DNA viruses can duplicate
cannot replicate independently
no independent metabolism
can evolve

Question 3

explain Aristotles classification system

Answer 3

explained plant stand animals with animals distinguished beard on habitat and whether they had red blood cells or not.

Question 4

explain Maria Sybylla Merians classification of life

Answer 4

used art and demonstrated that butterflies came from caterpillars. disproved the idea that life came from objects (transformation info matter). also discredited because her drawing included a forked tongue on the moth- does have for a couple hours and merges together. also first scientific expedition - started to classify life

Question 5

explain Carl Linnaeus

Answer 5

-introduced binomial nomenclature
-described 7 300 species of plants

Question 6

explain the classification of life

Answer 6

life
domain
kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
genus
species

Question 7

why is classification of life important

Answer 7

talk in the same language to accurately understand smth. uses latin because its dead and doesn’t evolve. its to be abe to classify and understand the relationship between different species

Question 8

what are the three types of domain

Answer 8

bacteria, archaea and eukaryote

Question 9

explain bacteria

Answer 9

• no nucleus and membrane bound orgnalles
• call wall contains peptidoglycan

Question 10

explain archaea

Answer 10

no nucleus and membrane bound organelles, introduced in 1977 membrane doesn’t have peptidoglycan

Question 10

explain eukarya

Answer 10

protists, plant, animals and fungi
has nucleus, membrane bound organelles.

Question 11

explain the characteristic of protists

Answer 11

any unicellular organisms that doesn’t fit in any other groups.

Question 12

explain the characteristics of plants

Answer 12

• multicellular, has nucleus, cullulose and cell walls, mostly autotrophs

Question 13

explain fungi

Answer 13

multicellular, cells with nuclei and membrane bound organelles , hetertrophs

Question 14

explain characteristics of animals

Answer 14

multicellular, nuclei and membrane bound organelles hetetrophs

Question 15

what Is Eurocentric science

Answer 15

European science