Life Science Flashcards

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1
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An organism that has more that me cell

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Multicellular

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2
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These types of organisms eat other organisms because they can’t make there own food

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Consumers

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3
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This term describes one cells organisms

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Unicellular

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4
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This process that plant make there own food

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Photosynthesis

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5
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Remains of once living things

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Fossils

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6
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These non living chains of amino acids are the building blocks of cells

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Proteins

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7
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6 characteristics of living things

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Made of cells
Able to move
Grow and develop
Reproduce
Respond to the stimulus
Metabolism
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8
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Four main parts of the metabolism

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Excretion
Ingestion
Respiration
Digestion

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9
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This term describes the sum total of all the chemical reactions that take place in an organism

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Metabolism

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10
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This theory stated that life could Spring from a non living matter

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Spontaneous generation

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Any change in an environment or surround of an organism that produces a response by an organism

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Stimulus

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This term describes some action, movement or chandler in behaviour of the organism

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Response

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13
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This is how long the Earth is believed to have formed

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4.6 billion

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14
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All living things are composed or made of mainly of the same basic elements

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Carbon
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen

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15
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Spontaneous generation

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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

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16
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Redi’s experiment

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Covered and uncovered jars of rotting meat and checked the meat for maggots