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Classification of life
Classification of life
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A review of the necessities of life and how living things are classified.
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An organism without a nucleus is ....
Eukaryotic
Prokaryotic
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An example of a nucleic acid is...
RNA
DNA
Carbohydrates
Ribosomes
3
What increased the growth of mold in lab?
Sunlight
Moisture
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Anton Von Leeuwenhook is best known for discovering...
Cells
Microorganisms
"Animalcules"
Taxonomy
5
An unknown organism is autotrophic, unicellular and eukaryotic. What kingdom does it belong to?
Protist
Fungi
Bacteria
Plant
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What is NOT a chemical of life?
Iron
Carbohydrates
DNA
Lipids
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Bread mold belongs to what kingdom?
Fungi
Bacteria
Protists
Eukarya
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An organism's need to maintain a stable internal environment is called...
Metabolism
Homeostasis
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As you move down levels of classification the number of organisms in each group ___________
Increases
Decreases
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The scientific study of how living things are classified is...
Biology
Ecology
Taxidermy
Taxonomy
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DNA is composed of how many nitrogen bases?
3
4
2
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Under a microscope you observed a prokaryotic organism. What domain could it belong to?
Archaeabacteria
Eubacteria
Eukarya
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Sexual reproduction involves __ parents.
2
1
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By using a field guide or a ______, scientists can identify unknown organisms.
Periodic table
Dichotomous key
Taxonomic key
MCAS reference sheet
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Robert Hooke (Hook to da hizzy) is credited with...
Writing the cell theory
Discovering microorganisms ("animalcules")
Naming the cell
16
Because a horse can mate with a donkey to produce a mule means they are of the same species.
True
False
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Binomial nomenclature involves naming organisms with two names according to their...
Kingdom and species
Domain and kingdom
Genus and species
Family and genus
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If a living thing is stimulated, then there will be...
metabolic processes
reproduction
a response
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Spontaneous generation is the belief that...
all living things come from non living things.
Living things come only from other living things.
An organism can internally combust without warning
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Which is a part of Daltons cell theory?
Atoms are the basic unit of matter.
Cells are the basic unit of living things.
All living things are made of cells.
Cells come from other living cells.
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The kingdom of "mis-fit" organisms is...
Plants
Protists
Fungi
Animals
22
Within the animal kingdom there is more diversity with...
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of living things?
Capable to reproduce
Made of cells with nuclei
Can sense and respond
Can move
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Sexual reproducing organisms typically provide _____ parental care.
Less
More
25
Who helped to disprove spontaneous generation?
Louis Pasteur
Carolus Linneaus
John Dalton
Francesco Redi
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How many domains are there to classify living organisms?
3
6
4
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Water is essential to life because...
It alleviates climate change
It can't dissolve many substances
It is polar
It exists as only a liquid on earth.
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Your internal temperature being regulated at 98.6 degrees is an example of...
Homeostasis
Ectothermisis
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A measure of an organisms ability to efficiently undergo chemical processes is its...
Metabolism
Decomposition
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Who devised a system of classifying organisms according to observable features?
Louis Pasteur
Francesco Redi
John Dalton
Carolus Linneaus
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An unknown autotrophic multicellular organism is a member of what kingdom?
Animalia
Protista
Plantae
Fungi
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What do sexual and asexual reproduction have in common?
Both result in genetic variation in offspring
Both involve DNA
Both have 2 parents
33
To what kingdom do humans belong?
Eukarya
Animal
34
What was the responding variable in Louis Pasteur's experiment?
Heat
Amount of broth
Bacterial growth
35
Which is not a need of living things?
Air
Water
Food
Living Space
36
What was the manipulated variable in Redi's experiment?
Number of flies formed
Cloth cover
Type of jar
Meat
37
What is the broadest level of classification?
Domain
Species
38
What species is bird X?
Platyspiza
Geospiza
Camarhynchus
Certhidea
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An organism that consumes other living things to survive is a(n)
Heterotroph
Autotroph
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All living things need...
Homeostasis
Food & water
Oxygen
Living space
