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What Is Life? Flashcards

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1
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What are the 7 characteristics of living things?

A

Movement, reproduction, sensitivity, growth, respiration, excretion nutrition.

MSGREN

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What is nutrition?

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the process to get food

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3
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What is respiration?

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The process by which living things make energy in food available.

Using oxygen or CO2

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4
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Carbon dioxide formula

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Co2

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5
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Glucose formula

A

C6H12O6

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Limewater formula

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Ca(OH)2

Calcium oxide

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7
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How does yeast reproduce?

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Through a process known as budding

A bud grows out of the cell and gets bigger until it detatches

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What are vertebrates?

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An animal with a backbone

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What are Invertebrates?

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An animal without a backbone

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What are the 5 types of living organisms?

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Bacteria, Fungi , Plants, Animals, Protists and viruses

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What is the definition of a species

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A species is a group of organisms that can reproduce to produce fertile offspring

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What are the 5 big groups of invertebrates?

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1.Arthropods
2.Echinoderms
3.Molluscs
4.Cnidaria
5.Worms

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What are the 4 types of arthropods?

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1.Insects
2.Arachnids
3.Crustaceans
4.Myriapods

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What are the 3 segments to an insect’s body?

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Head, Thorax (Body) and Abdomen

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What are the traits of a insect?

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6 legs and a pair of antennae.

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What are the traits of a crustacean?

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10 legs

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What are the traits of a arachnids?

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Two body segments and 8 legs

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What are the traits of a myriapod?

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Long, segmented bodies and 1 or 2 pairs of legs on each segment

19
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What are the traits of a Echinoderm?

A

Spiny skin

20
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What are the traits of a Cnidaria?

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All live in the sea and they have stinging tentacles around their mouth

21
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What are the traits of a Mollusc?

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Muscular bodies but no legs

22
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What are the traits of a worm?

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No legs, long bodies

23
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What are the traits of an arthropod?

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Hard outer skeleton(Exoskeleton) and jointed legs

24
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What are the traits of fish?

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  1. Have scales covering their bodies
  2. Lay eggs in water
  3. Have gills
  4. Have fin and tail
  5. Cold-blooded
25
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What are the traits of amphibians

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  1. Have moist, smooth skin
  2. Lay eggs in water
  3. Four legs
  4. Breathe through skin and lungs during adulthood
  5. Cold-blooded
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What are the traits of reptiles?

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  1. Dry, scaly skin
  2. Lay eggs with leathery skin on land
  3. Four legs except for snakes
  4. Use lungs
  5. Cold-blooded
27
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What are the traits of birds?

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  1. Have feathers and beaks
  2. Lay eggs with hard shells
  3. Two legs and two wings (even if unable to fly)
  4. Use lungs
  5. Warm-blooded
28
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What are the traits of mammals?

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  1. Have fur
  2. Give birth and feed their offspring with milk
  3. Four limbs
  4. Use lungs
  5. Warm-blooded
29
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What are the 4 types of plants?

A
  1. Liverworts and mosses
  2. Ferns
  3. Conifers (Gymnosperms)
    Flowering plants (Angiosperms)
30
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What are the 4 types of plants?

A
  1. Liverworts and mosses
  2. Ferns
  3. Conifers (Gymnosperms)
    Flowering plants (Angiosperms)
31
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What are the plants in non-flowering plants?

A

Liverworts and mosses aswell as ferns

32
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What are the plants in seed plants?

A

Conifers (Gymnosperms) and Flowering plants (Angiosperms)

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What are the traits of liverworts and mosses?

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  1. The smallest of all plant types
  2. Have no true roots, stems or leaves w/ veins
  3. Have no water carrying vessels
  4. Reproduce with spores and have no flowers
34
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What are the traits of ferns?

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  1. Have roots,stem and fronds which look like leaves
  2. Reproduce with spores which grow under the fronds
35
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What are the traits of conifers (gymnosperms)?

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  1. Have narrow, needle like leaves
  2. Produce simple flowers and seeds
  3. Seeds are ‘naked’ - they’re found loose in cones
36
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What are the traits of flowering plants (Angiosperms)?

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  1. Produce flowers pollinated by the wind or by animals
  2. Produce fruits and seeds
37
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What are the two reasons scientists say viruses aren’t living organisms?

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  1. They can’t carry out the 7 life processes and need to hijack another organism to do so.
  2. They can survive in for years in extreme conditions like an airtight container and still infect people.
38
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What are the two reasons some scientists say viruses are living organisms?

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  1. They have lived for millions of years alongside other living organisms.
  2. They are the “perfect parasite”, and using another hosts life processes technically meets their own as well.

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