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Classification of life
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A review of the necessities of life and how living things are classified.
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Spontaneous generation is the belief that...
all living things come from non living things.
An organism can internally combust without warning
Living things come only from other living things.
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What was the responding variable in Louis Pasteur's experiment?
Amount of broth
Bacterial growth
Heat
3
By using a field guide or a ______, scientists can identify unknown organisms.
MCAS reference sheet
Dichotomous key
Periodic table
Taxonomic key
4
Your internal temperature being regulated at 98.6 degrees is an example of...
Homeostasis
Ectothermisis
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What is NOT a chemical of life?
Carbohydrates
DNA
Iron
Lipids
6
Under a microscope you observed a prokaryotic organism. What domain could it belong to?
Eubacteria
Archaeabacteria
Eukarya
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If a living thing is stimulated, then there will be...
a response
reproduction
metabolic processes
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Who devised a system of classifying organisms according to observable features?
Carolus Linneaus
Louis Pasteur
Francesco Redi
John Dalton
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Which is not a need of living things?
Water
Living Space
Food
Air
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Who helped to disprove spontaneous generation?
John Dalton
Louis Pasteur
Francesco Redi
Carolus Linneaus
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Within the animal kingdom there is more diversity with...
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
12
As you move down levels of classification the number of organisms in each group ___________
Decreases
Increases
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An organism without a nucleus is ....
Eukaryotic
Prokaryotic
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The kingdom of "mis-fit" organisms is...
Animals
Plants
Protists
Fungi
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A measure of an organisms ability to efficiently undergo chemical processes is its...
Metabolism
Decomposition
16
Which is a part of Daltons cell theory?
All living things are made of cells.
Cells come from other living cells.
Cells are the basic unit of living things.
Atoms are the basic unit of matter.
17
Water is essential to life because...
It alleviates climate change
It is polar
It can't dissolve many substances
It exists as only a liquid on earth.
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Robert Hooke (Hook to da hizzy) is credited with...
Naming the cell
Discovering microorganisms ("animalcules")
Writing the cell theory
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Binomial nomenclature involves naming organisms with two names according to their...
Family and genus
Domain and kingdom
Genus and species
Kingdom and species
20
An organism's need to maintain a stable internal environment is called...
Homeostasis
Metabolism
21
An organism that consumes other living things to survive is a(n)
Autotroph
Heterotroph
22
What increased the growth of mold in lab?
Sunlight
Moisture
23
Anton Von Leeuwenhook is best known for discovering...
Microorganisms
Taxonomy
"Animalcules"
Cells
24
Sexual reproduction involves __ parents.
1
2
25
To what kingdom do humans belong?
Animal
Eukarya
26
An unknown autotrophic multicellular organism is a member of what kingdom?
Protista
Plantae
Fungi
Animalia
27
Because a horse can mate with a donkey to produce a mule means they are of the same species.
True
False
28
An unknown organism is autotrophic, unicellular and eukaryotic. What kingdom does it belong to?
Protist
Plant
Fungi
Bacteria
29
What do sexual and asexual reproduction have in common?
Both involve DNA
Both have 2 parents
Both result in genetic variation in offspring
30
Sexual reproducing organisms typically provide _____ parental care.
Less
More
31
All living things need...
Living space
Homeostasis
Oxygen
Food & water
32
How many domains are there to classify living organisms?
3
4
6
33
The scientific study of how living things are classified is...
Taxidermy
Ecology
Taxonomy
Biology
34
Bread mold belongs to what kingdom?
Fungi
Protists
Bacteria
Eukarya
35
DNA is composed of how many nitrogen bases?
4
3
2
36
Which of the following is not a characteristic of living things?
Made of cells with nuclei
Can move
Can sense and respond
Capable to reproduce
37
An example of a nucleic acid is...
Ribosomes
Carbohydrates
DNA
RNA
38
What is the broadest level of classification?
Species
Domain
39
What species is bird X?
Platyspiza
Certhidea
Camarhynchus
Geospiza
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What was the manipulated variable in Redi's experiment?
Number of flies formed
Meat
Type of jar
Cloth cover
