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42 Cards in this Set
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An organism is a complete ______________ |
living thing |
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An organism's _________________ include its birth, growth, reproduction and death |
lifespan |
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What is an instrument that uses lenses to magnify objects? |
microscope |
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What is a green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plant cells? |
chlorophyll |
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What are structures in the cytoplasm of a cell? |
organelles |
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The term cell was first used by __________ |
Robert Hooke |
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The cell follows the ___________ ____________ code as it grows, reproduces and builds substances. |
DNA |
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What provides support for plant cells? |
cell wall |
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What are cell engines that break down food and release energy? |
mitochondria |
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The conclusions of Theodor Schwann and Matthias Scheliden form the basis of the _____________. |
cell theory |
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What are bubble-like storage organelle? |
vacuole |
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What is an external boundary for the material inside a cell? |
cell membrane |
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What is a structure found in plant cells that contain green pigment? |
choloplast |
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What is jelly like substance inside cell membrane? |
cytoplasm |
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What is the large circular structure containing DNA? |
nucleus |
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List 3 characteristics of living things? |
Living things reproduce. Living things grow and develop. Living things use energy. |
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Explain the cell theory. |
It is a theory stating that all living things are made of cells and the cell is the smallest from of life |
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List in order from smallest to largest: cells, systems, organs, tissues |
cells, tissues, organs, systems |
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always multicellular |
plantae, animalia |
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live in poisonous conditions |
archaebacteria |
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does not have a true or well defined nucleus |
eubacteria, archaebacteria |
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mushrooms, yeasts, molds |
fungi |
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may have chlorophyll in their cells |
protista, plantae |
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always unicellular organisms |
eubacteria, archaebacteria, protista |
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some are unicellular and some are multicellular |
fungi |
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What is the smallest living thing? |
bacteria |
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What is a group of the same kind of organism? |
colony |
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What are protozoans and algae? |
protista |
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What are paramecium and amoeba? |
protozoan |
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What is the process of converting sunlight into sugar? |
photosynthesis |
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What is it when one cell divides into two? |
cell division |
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An organism produces reproductive cells by the process of ___________. |
meiosis |
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An organism grows and replaces cells by the process of ____________. |
mitosis |
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A reproductive cell has _________ chromosomes as the parent cell. |
half as many |
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Putting organisms with similar characteristics into groups is called _____. |
classification |
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What is the process of creating new life using cells from male and female organisms? |
sexual reproduction |
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Who developed a system of classification? |
Carolus Linnaeus |
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The scientific names of classification from the largest group to the smallest group is |
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
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Some helpful bacteria are found in _____ |
yogurt and in your intestines |
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What are the two scientific names? |
genus and species |
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What are the living kingdoms? |
eubacteria, archaebacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia |
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How is man different from animals? |
Humans have a sense of right and wrong. Man was made in God's image. |
