biology

Question 1

What is each level of classification called

Answer 1

Taxonomy

Question 2

What is taxonomy

Answer 2

used to classify and name organisms

Question 3

What are scientific names

Answer 3

the genus and the species

Question 4

who was carolus linneus

Answer 4

developed a naming system called binomial nomeclature
*levels of life always go from largest to smallest

Question 5

what are the levels of life

Answer 5

domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 6

What is more than one genus called

Answer 6

a family

Question 7

what is order

Answer 7

a broad category composed of similar categories

Question 8

what is binomial nomeclature

Answer 8

when each species is assigned a two-part scientific name

Question 9

what are the domains

Answer 9

bacteria, archaea, eukarya,
plante, anamalia, protist, fungi

Question 10

what is the phylum

Answer 10

made up of several diffirent classes

Question 11

what is the kingdom

Answer 11

largest and most inclusive taxonomic categories

Question 12

what is a group of closely related species called

Answer 12

they are called a genus

Question 13

Eukaryotic cells

Answer 13

HAS a nucleus

Question 14

Prokaryotic

Answer 14

DOES NOT have a nucleus

Question 15

what is phylogeny

Answer 15

the study of revolutionary relashionships among organisms
just because 2 things look similar does not mean they share a common ancestor

Question 16

evolutionary classification

Answer 16

grouping organisms based on evolutionary relashionships
the higher the taxon the less recent ancestor

Question 17

what is a cladogram

Answer 17

a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms

Question 18

dichotomus key

Answer 18

used to seperate things into categories

Question 19

What are the characteristics of life

Answer 19

1. order ex: arrangment of cells
2. homeostasis regulation ex: body temp
3. respond to stimulus ex: venus fly trap
4. energy processing
5. growth and development ex: a baby
6. reproduction
7. evolution and adaption

Question 20

what are the levels of organization

Answer 20

biosphere, ecosystems, communities, populations, individuals, organ system, organs, tissues, cells, organells, molecules, atoms
they go from largest to smallest

Question 21

What was the cell theory and who came up with it

Answer 21

in 1839 mathaias schilden and theodore schwan came up with the idea that all living things are made up of cells and that cells are the smallest unit of life and new cells come from existing cells

Question 22

What is negative feedback

Answer 22

a change that reverses the current direction of the system EX: body temperture and blood sugar

Question 23

What is positive feedback

Answer 23

amplifies or continues that current state of the system EX: childbirth

Question 24

what are the steps to the scientific method

Answer 24

1. casual question- how or why
2. hypothesis- testable explanation
3. prediction- what you should see
4. test- evidence
5. conclusion- decision

Question 25

what is mimicry

Answer 25

when a harmless species represents a harmful one

Question 26

what is the scientific theory

Answer 26

hypothesis with so much evidence regarded as true

Question 27

who came up with the idea of natural selection

Answer 27

charels Darwin

Question 28

what are the needs for natural selection

Answer 28

population of organisms, hereditary variation, overproduction and struggle for existance, diffrences in reproductive succsses, and evolution adaptations in population

Question 29

who was Robert Hooke

Answer 29

built a compund microscope in the mid 1600s and looked at a cork

Question 30

who was anton von leeuwenhook

Answer 30

first to see single celled organisms in pond water and first to see cellls in blood

Question 31

what is cell fraction

Answer 31

seperate diffirent cell parts