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| Life Science is the science of observing and gaining knowledge about living things. |
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| Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) |
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Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free online encyclopedia that one day will contain information on every known species on Earth. www.eol.org |
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| Biology comes from a Greek word meaning? |
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It means “knowledge of life” |
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| is a system of labeling things which groups of similar things with similar traits. |
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| What are three traits scientist consider important when they place living creature in kingdoms? |
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1.The structure of an organism’s cells. 2. How creatures get their food or energy. 3. How creature reproduce or have offspring. |
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| Cells with a well-defined nucleus surrounded by membrane & specialized parts (organelles) are called what? |
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Eukaryotes. These are all eukaryotes: animals, plants, fungi, chromista, and protozoa |
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| Cells with just a clump of genetic material that is not surrounded by a membrane are called what? |
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Prokaryotes. Most prokaryotes have just one cell. Bacteria and Archaea are prokaryotes. |
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| To be a member of the plant kingdom, an organism must do what? |
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Members of the plant kingdom must make their own food with the help of sunlight. |
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| Plants have complex cells with what kind of cell walls? |
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| Plants have complex cells with rigid cell walls. |
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| There are two kinds of plants. What are they? |
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a. Vascular Plants: have tubes b. Non-vascular Plants: are plants that have no flowers and no tubes inside to move fluids around. Moss is a non-vascular plant. |
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Animals with backbones. Like lions, tigers and bears--Oh, my! |
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Animals without backbones. Invertebrates outnumber vertebrates. For every vertebrate there are 24 invertebrates. Like worms, slugs, snails, nematodes, tapeworms--yuck! |
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| Fungi absorb nutrients from where? |
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The surface which they are attached- - like the fungus that you see on a tree. |
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Chromista are usually found in what habitat? And name one chromista. |
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Watery habitats. Kelp is a chromista. Diatoms are chromista as well. Kelp grow in the clear water of shallow oceans. Kelp form forests of tall plants many feet in length anchored to the ocean floor by their roots. This is where seals and otters swim and hide from sharks. |
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Mushrooms are fungi. Some look like plants, but they do not make food with sunlight. Fungi do some great services. They help decompose dead organisms. On one episode of Dirty Jobs , Mike Rowe visited a mushroom farm where all the mushrooms were inside a dark building. |
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| Protozoa are they eukaryotes or prokaryotes |
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Protozoa are they eukaryotes. They have a nucleus with a membrane around it. |
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| Are Protozoa multicellular or unicellular? |
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| Protozoa are all unicellular. |
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| Two common members of Protozoa are? |
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| Are Protozoa 'water loving' or found in dry conditions? |
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| Bacteria are they eukaryotes or prokaryotes? |
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| Are bacteria multicellular or unicellular? |
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| Bacteria are helpful like the ones that make cheese out of what liquid? |
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Where do they live? EVERYWHERE... –even in and on you…very creepy! |
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| Arhacea are they multi-cellular or unicellular? |
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| Arhacea are they prokaryokes or eukaryotes? |
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They are less than micron in length… …That is 1/1,000,000th of meter. That is much smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. |
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| Some arhacea live in what kind of extreme environments? |
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| Some arhacea live in extreme environments like the hottest, coldest, saltiest and deepest places on Earth. |
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| Are viruses multicellular, unicellular or have no cell walls at all? |
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| Viruses have no cell walls at all. |
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| parasitic pieces of genetic material covered with protein. |
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| Viruses cause what kind of diseases? |
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| Colds, flu, chickenpox, and rabies by infecting a host like a fifth grader. Ouch! |
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| Viruses need what to live and reproduce? |
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| Viruses need a host to live and reproduce--Like yourself! Yuck! |
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| It is when living things help each other survive. |
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| How do hermit crabs and sea anemone have a symbiotic relationship? |
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The hermit crabs often carry sea anemones around (on top of their borrowed shells) to places where sea anemones can obtain food. The sea anemones in turn sting anything that comes near the crab. They both help each other! |
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| What tiny things inside your body help you? |
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Tiny creatures live in your intestinal tract and help you digest food. In return, 5th graders give the microbes their breakfast, lunch and dinner (and dessert, too, if they are nice! lol) |
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| Who continued the work of Aristotle’s taxonomy and gave a lot of animals the names we use today? |
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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) People from all over the world brought him living creatures for him to put into a group, or taxon. As a child he liked to collect plants. He used microscopes and other tools to help him in the process of naming and classifying living things. |
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