Life Science Flashcards
An organism that has more that me cell
Multicellular
These types of organisms eat other organisms because they can’t make there own food
Consumers
This term describes one cells organisms
Unicellular
This process that plant make there own food
Photosynthesis
Remains of once living things
Fossils
These non living chains of amino acids are the building blocks of cells
Proteins
6 characteristics of living things
Made of cells Able to move Grow and develop Reproduce Respond to the stimulus Metabolism
Four main parts of the metabolism
Excretion
Ingestion
Respiration
Digestion
This term describes the sum total of all the chemical reactions that take place in an organism
Metabolism
This theory stated that life could Spring from a non living matter
Spontaneous generation
Any change in an environment or surround of an organism that produces a response by an organism
Stimulus
This term describes some action, movement or chandler in behaviour of the organism
Response
This is how long the Earth is believed to have formed
4.6 billion
All living things are composed or made of mainly of the same basic elements
Carbon
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Spontaneous generation
The theory that life could Spring by non living matter
Until the 1600s most people believed in the spontaneous generation
In 1668 an Italian doctor named Francesco Redi disapproved this theory