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40 Cards in this Set
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What is the classifying of living things called???
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Taxonomy
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The first name of a scientific name is called the what?
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The Genus and it is capitalized.
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The second name of a scientific name is the what???
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Species and it is lower case.
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List the seven levels of classification of living things.
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Kingdom, Phylum (when is a plant), Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
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What are the 6 Kingdoms?
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Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protist, Fungus, Plant, Animal
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Why are viruses not considered living things?
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They do not contain cells.
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What are some important facts about viruses?
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They need a host cell to replicate, they are not alive, and they cannot be treated with antibiotics but can be prevented with vaccines which are a small part of the virus either dead or injured.
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Antibiotics are not effective on viruses because???
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They are not alive and survives in our cells, antibiotics are designed to attack bacterium and not our cells so, that is why they are uneffected by antibiotics it is also because with viruses their is nothing to "kill" and that is what the antibiotics do.
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What are the three common shapes of bacteria?
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spiral, rod-shaped, circular
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What are the types of asexual reproduction that bacteria use to reproduce?
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Binary Fission, a chromosome then seperates and eventually you have a clone.
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What is the type of reproduction of bacteria that some scientist say is asexual and other sexual?
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Conjugation because it involves to organisms exchanging cells. Conjugation is when a cell bridges to another and they exchange all or part of their chromosomes.
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What is one of the common uses of protists?
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FOOD!
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What are some benefits of protists?
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They are found anywhere with water and help the food chain by adding food to it.
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What are some harmful protists??
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THe ameba it can causes fatal diseases.
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What do mushrooms release to reproduce?
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Spores.
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What are some common fungi???
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Athletes foot and Mushrooms.
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What are some benefits of fungi???
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They recycle matter and giv enutrient to the enviroment.
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What are some harmful fungi?
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Some fungi can causes diseases in animals plants and human along with making food go bad and causing sickness in that.
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What type of energy does photosynthesis convert?
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Light energy to chemical energy.
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What materials are mandatory for photosynthesis?
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Carbon Dioxide, Water, Sunlight
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In what organelle does photosynthesis take place?
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Chloroplast
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What is the green pigment in the leaves of plants called?
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Chlorophyll.
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What are the three parts of the vascular system of plants?
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Xylem, Phloem, Cambrium
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Energy Increases or decreases as an organism eats a plant?
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Increases.
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Insects have a or no backbone?
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NO BACKBONE
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What animals contain backbones?
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Vertebrates
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What animals have no backbone?
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Invertebrates
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What term is used when describing an animal that cannot internally control their body temp.
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Cold-blooded or Ectothermic
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What is the term used to describe animals controlling their body temp. internally?
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Endothermic or Warm-blooded
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What is an adaptation of invertebrates?
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Most have a hard exoskeleton because they have no backbone.
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What is an adaptation of fish?
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Fins, Gills, Scales
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What is an adaptation of amphibians?
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Since they are cold blooded they lay in the sun often and they have thick leathery sun to protect them from drying out.
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What is an adaptation of reptilies?
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Thick skin, leathery eggs to with stand heat, strong legs
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What is an adaptation of birds?
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FLIGHT, feathers, eggs, legs, beak
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What is an adaptation of mammals?
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HAIR, milk offspring, teeth, eyes, brain.
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Major organs in the Digestive System?
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Esaphagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, gall bladder, small intestine, large intestine.
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Respiratory System major organs?
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nose, pharynx, trchea, bronchi, and lungs.
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Circulatory system organs/components?
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Blood, Blood Vessels, Heart
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Nervous System Organs and Components?
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Brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
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If you were at the top of the food chain would you have more or less energy than a being closer to the bottom (the sun)?
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Less because as you get hire you get less energy from the sun.
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