Science Test Flashcards
Transport
The life process involved with the circulation and absorption of materials into cells
Nutrition
The life process by which an organism obtains and processes food (autotroph or heterotroph
Respiration
The process of converting energy from food into a usable from (ATP)
Excretion
The removal of cellular waste that are harmful to organisms
Ex:urine ,water,and salt
Metabolism
Sum total of all the chemical reactions
Homeostasis is the main balance so if it fails it’s sickness or death
Synthesis
Process of producing, complex substances from simple substances
Protista
Uni cellular, flagella (tail like) may have chloroplast
Moneras
Prokaryotic (no nucleus) example. Bacteria
Feedback mechanisms
Responding to different environment
Kingdom
Largest classification group
Linnaeus
Devised a way to name all living organisms
Order of classification
King Philip came over for good soup
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Genus is always capitalized and underlined
Species is lowercase and underline
