Characteristics of Life | Classifying Organisms | Exploring Life | Chapter 1 Mixed |
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What are organisms?
Things that have all the characteristics of life.
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Who is Aristotle?
One of the first scientists to classify organisms. This scientists placed all organisms into two large groups; plants and animals.
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Who is Robert Hooke?
Named the cell.
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What is external stimulus?
The feeling of the sun light hitting your skin.
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What is internal stimulus?
The feeling of hunger
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What is binomial nomenclature?
This gives all living things a two word scientific name.
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What is ocular and objective?
The two lens in a light microscope.
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Who is Whittaker?
The scientist who proposed a five-kingdom system for classifying.
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What is reproduction of unicellular organisms.
I reproduce by dividing.
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What is a dichotomous key?
A classification tool used by scientists that leads them to the identification of the organism.
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What is a light microscope?
A microscope that uses light and lens to magnify an object.
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What is a multicellular organism?
Living things that are made of two or more or cells.
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What are unicellular organisms?
Things that are made of only one cell.
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What is genus and species?
The two taxonomic groups used to give an organism its scientific name.
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What is an electron microscope?
A microscope that focuses a beam of electrons through an object or onto an object's surface.
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What is multicellular organisms.
Organisms that either have specialized cells or must have a mate for reproduction.
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What is the sun?
Where all energy starts.
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What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
The order of the taxonomic groups starting with domain.
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Who is Anton von Leeuwenhoek?
This scientists made improvements to the first microscope which had the ability to magnify an object up to 270 times its original size.
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What is species.
A group of organisms that have similar traits.
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