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13 Cards in this Set
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5 kingdoms |
monera, protista, plantae, animalia, and fungi |
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3 domains |
archaea, bacteria, and eukaryota |
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heterotroph |
Organism that obtains energy and carbon by feeding on other organisms, their waste, or there remains |
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autotroph |
Organism that uses energy captured from sunlight or inorganic chemicals to make its own food from inorganic compounds |
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prokaryotic |
A single celled organism often walled without a nucleus or other organelles a bacterium or archaen |
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eukaryotic |
Type of cell that starts life with a nucleus and other organelles |
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absorption |
The process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed and assimilated by a living organism. |
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ingestion |
Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in the substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract, such as through eating or drinking |
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taxonomy |
Branch of biology that involves identification, naming and classification of species |
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linnaean groupings |
kingdom, phylum, class, order, familu, genus, species |
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levels of organization |
atom, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, multicelled organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere |
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why arent viruses living things? |
they dont reproduce on their own, use or produce energy, they arent a cell, they dont have organelles, cannot make proteins on their owns. all they have is DNA and RNA |
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characteristics of life |
1. Cellular Organization2. Reproduction3. Metabolism4. Homeostasis5. Heredity6. Response to Stimuli7. Growth and Development8. Adaptation through Evolution |
