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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The need for an energy source

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True

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to move

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False

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to grow and develop

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True

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to breathe oxygen

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False

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to eat food

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False. (Can absorb or use photosynthesis)

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to respond to the environment

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True

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
A high level of organization

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False (bacteria)

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to reproduce

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True

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
Composed of cells

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True

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
Possession of adaptations for survival in the environment

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True

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Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to see and hear

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False (plants)

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The domains are…

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Bacteria, Archaea, and eukarya

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The five kingdoms are…

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Animalia, plantae, fungi, monera, and Protista

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Kingdom Protista is known as…

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The junk drawer

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The steps of the scientific method are…

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  1. observation
  2. hypothesis
  3. production
  4. experiments
  5. data analysis and drawn conclusions
  6. communication of data and conclusions
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The scientific method is…

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And organized approach to learn how the natural world works

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The two important principles the scientific method is based on are…

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  • The natural world have natural causes.

- Uniformity, the idea that the fundamental laws of nature operate the same way at all places and at all times

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A compound light microscope is…

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A microscope that shines right through a specimen and has two lenses to magnify an image

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The four major parts of a compound light microscope are…

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The eyepiece
Objective lens
Stage
And light source

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Resolution

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The power to show details clearly in an image

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Electron microscopes

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Used to examine cells in more detail or view cell parts or viruses

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The two kinds of electron microscope are…

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Scanning electron microscope (passes a beam of electrons over the specimen surface)
Transmission electron microscope (transmits of beam of a electrons through a very thinly sliced specimen)

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Classification of organisms…

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Cell type
Cell number
Energy requirement
Motility
So well composition
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Cell type

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Eukaryotic or prokaryotic

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Cell number

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Unicellular or multicellular

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Energy requirement

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Autotroph or heterotroph (ingestive or depends on other living things for nutrients)

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Motility

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Motile or non motile

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Cell wall composition

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None
Cellulose
Peptitoglycan
Or chitin

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