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1
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What is a condenser?

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Convex lenses that focus light

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2
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What is the resolution?

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Measures how much detail we can see

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3
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How many life characteristics are needed?

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8

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4
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Characteristic of life:atom-molecule-macromolecule-organelle-cells-tissues-organs-organism

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Displays organization

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5
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Addition of mass, psychological and physical change, ——-.

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Grows & develops

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6
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Asexual and sexual, part of —–

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Reproduction

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7
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What is response to stimuli?

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Anything that is part of the internal or external environments and causes some sort of reaction by the organism, that is called stimuli.

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8
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We need food, water, etc. because we require ——.

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Energy

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9
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What is homeostasis?

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The internal conditions to maintain life

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10
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What are a species changes overtime called?

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Adaptation

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11
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Theory of life based on religion:

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Creationism

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12
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Aristotle’s theory is called…?

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Spontaneous Generation

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13
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What does the Spontaneous Generation Theory say?

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Things appeared from nothing

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14
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According to Aristotle, living things need five elements. Which are these?

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Water, fire, air, earth & quintessence

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15
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Francesco Redi is mostly known as the father of….

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The controlled experiments

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16
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Louis Pauster is the father of what?

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Pasteurization & bacteriology

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17
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Louis Pasteur used an experiment to prove his theory, what is it called?

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Flask experiment

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18
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Which theory’s name comes from the Greek meaning “seeds everywhere”?

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Panspermia

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19
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Panspermia consists of:

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Possible life sources are meteorites, dust or bacteria

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20
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Which theory says that life originated from atoms?

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Physicochemical

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21
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The physicochemical theory was proven by which experiment?

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Urey-Miller Experiment

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22
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Who created the Endosymbiotic theory?

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Lynn Margullis

23
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What does the Endosymbiotic theory say?

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Life comes from bacteria

24
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What is a cell?

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It is the smallest unit of living matter

25
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An example of a unicellular organism would be:

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Bacteria / amoeba

26
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Which are the two types of cells?

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Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic

27
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What are the three cellular kingdoms?

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Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaria

28
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Which two kingdoms are Prokaryotic cells?

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Bacteria & Archaea

29
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The two types of cells within the Eukaria kingdom are:

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Animal & Vegetal

30
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Prokaryotic cells have a —–, and Eukaryotic have a —–.

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Eukaryotic: nucleus
Prokaryotic: nucleoid

31
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What does the old cell theory say?

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All living things have cells, they reproduce, they come from previous cells, and they are the most basic unit of life.

32
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All cells have a…?

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Plasma membrane

33
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Which cells do not have a cell wall?

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Animal cells

34
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There are two types of Prokaryotic reproduction, which are these?

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Mitosis & Meiosis

35
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What are the four types of vegetal cells?

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Algae, Ameoba, Fungi, Plant

36
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Chloroplast can only be found in which type of cell?

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Vegetal cells

37
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What is cytoskeleton for?

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Structure & movement

38
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Thing that is found in all cells and allows movement:

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Cytoskeleton

39
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The cytoskeleton and the ———-, is found in all cells.

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Cytoplasm

40
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In order to move, all cells have ——–.

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Flagellum

41
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What is pili for?

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To feed themselves and be able to attach to other cells

42
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Pili can only be found in this type of cell:

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Prokaryotic cells

43
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All cells have LYSOSOMES to…?

A

Fight outsiders

44
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The function of the mitochondria is to…

A

Store energy

45
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What is plasma membrane made out of?

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Lipids

46
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Which organelle sends information to other cells?

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Ribosomes

47
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Two ways of Prokaryotic reproduction are:

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Fission & budding

48
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What does the Chromosome Theory of Heredity state?

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Germ cells are haploid

49
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Who produced the first commercial scanning electron microscope?

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Cambridge Instruments

50
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Who invented the compound microscope?

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Robert Hooke

51
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Schleiden & Schwann proposed that all living things have what?

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Cells

52
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Virchow said that cells…?

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Cells develop only from existing cells

53
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Mention three types of microscopes:

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Light, optical, and electron microscopes

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