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21 Cards in this Set
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contractile vacuole
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pumps water out of single celled organisms to maintain homeostasis
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heterotroph
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organisms that cannot make their own food
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pseudopod
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a two part naming system
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Carolus Linnaeus
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the scientist who invented our classification system
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unicellular organism
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unicellular
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sexual reproduction
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union of egg and sperm, forming a new genetic combination
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homeostasis
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maintaining a stable environment
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eukaryotic cell
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does not have a membrane bound, or true nucleus
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colonial
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strings or clusters of cells together but independent
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taxonomy
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the study of classifying living organisms
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binomial nomenclature
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a two naming system
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cilia
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shot hairlike projections used for locomotion
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prokaryote
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does not have a membrane bound or true, nucleus
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flagella
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long whiplike tail used for locomotion
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hierarchy
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a ranking system used to show order of components, with the highest level being the most general, and the lowest level the most specific
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The field of biology that deals with classifying real things is called...
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taxonomy
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A system that ranks categories from the broadest to the most specific can be thought of as...
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hierarchy
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The organisms that are prokaryotes are grouped as...
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eubacteria
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Mushrooms and yeast are placed in the Kingdom...
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Fungi
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To find out if two different colored rats are in the same species, they should be studied to see if they...
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produce fertile offspring
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Of the following, the broadest classification categories is...
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kingdom
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