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| The basic unit of structure and function in an organism. |
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| Consisting of many cells. |
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| A change in an organisms surroundings that causes the organism to react. |
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| An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus. |
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| The process of change that occurs during an organisms life to produce a more complex organism. |
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| The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. |
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| An experiment in which all factors are identical except one. |
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| An organism that makes its own food |
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| An organism that cannot make its own food. |
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| The maintenance of stable internal conditions. |
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| The process of grouping things based on their similarities. |
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| the scientific study of how living things are classified. |
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| The system for naming organisms in which each organism is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genus and species. |
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| A classification grouping that consists of a number of similar, closely related species. |
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| A group of similar organisms taht can mate with eachother and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. |
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| the process by which species gradually change over time. |
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| Name the six characteristics of Living Things. |
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| Cellular organization, chemicals of life, energy use, response to surroundings, growth and developement, and reproduction. |
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| Name the four chemicals of life and give an example. |
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| Carbohydrates - bread, lipids - oils, protein - meat, nucleic acid - DNA |
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| Give and example of a stimulus and a response. |
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| The bell rings, kids change classes. |
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| What is the difference between growth and developement? |
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| Growth is something getting bigger, development is a process of change that occurs in an organisms life to produce a more complex organism. |
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| What is the difference between Asexual and Sexual? |
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| Asexual has one parent ex: yeast, sexual has two ex: frogs. |
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| What experiment did Francesco Redi do that helped disprove spontaneous generation? |
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| He covered a jar of rotting meat witha lid and no flies hatched. Proving that living things come from living things. |
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| What did Louis Pasteur do in his experiment that disproved spontaneous generation? |
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| He boiled the broth and the bacteria was killed and it did not spoil. |
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| Name the four things that organisms need to survive. |
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| Food, water, living space and stable internal conditions |
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| What is the difference between Classification and taxonomy? |
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| Classification is grouping things based on their similarities making it easier to study, taxonomy is the scientific study of how things are classified. |
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| What did Linnaeus do to become the "Father of Taxonomy"? |
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| He created the Naming system called Binomial Nomenclature that means two names and in two parts. genus + species |
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| What is the scientific name for human and what is the correct way of writing it? |
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| What is the scientific name for a housecat? |
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| What are the 7 levels of classification? |
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| Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,and species. |
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| How is a dichotomous key helpful? |
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| It asks you questions and helps you identify an organism. |
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| What did Charles Darwin discover about the finches (birds) of the Galapagos Islands? |
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| The finches were similar but they had many differences in their beaks. |
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