What is Life?/Classification
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- Q1Plants can make their own food so they areautotrophsunicellularheterotrophmulticellular30s
- Q2The three Domains areBacteria, Archaea, ProtistsAnimals, Plants, FungiFungi, Eukarya, ProtistsBacteria, Eukarya, Archaea30s
- Q3Which Domain(s) include only prokaryotes?Bacteria onlyEukarya onlyArchaea onlyBacteria and Archaea30s
- Q4The experiments of Redi and Pasteur helped to demonstrate thatorganisms can be placed in groups based on their similaritiesspecies gradually change over timethe chemicals of life could have arisen on early Earthliving things do not arise from nonliving things30s
- Q5One characteristic used to place organisms into kingdoms iswhere they livetheir ability to reproducetheir ability to make foodhow they move30s
- Q6The more classification levels two organisms share,the more characteristics they have in commonthe more distantly related they arethe easier it is to tell them apartthe closer they live together30s
- Q7An organism's scientific name consists ofPhylum and SpeciesGenus and FamilyGenus and SpeciesGenus and Phylum30s
- Q8What is taxonomy?the name of Aristotle's classification systemthe process used by geologists to classify rocksthe process of observing an organism's behaviorthe scientific study of how living things are classified30s
- Q9Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that all living things share?response to stimuliability to move about freelycellular organizationability to reproduce30s
- Q10Why do scientists organize living things into groups?so organisms are easier to studyso organisms can be found in the wild easierso they can make sense of the variety of rocks on Earthso products from living things can be easily found in grocery stores30s
- Q11What are the levels of classification in order from broadest to most specific?Domain, Kingdom, Class, Family, Order, Phylum, Genus, SpeciesBacteria, Archaea. Eukarya, Protists, Fungi, Plants, AnimalsSpecies, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom, DomainDomain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species30s
- Q12The scientific name of man isHuman BeingHomo SapienHuman beingHomo sapien30s
- Q13The common name for a canine isDogCanine familiarisCanine dogCanis familiaris30s
- Q14Which of the following is NOT a need of living things to survive?waterliving spacefoodexercise30s
- Q15What is homeostasis?stable internal conditionsstable external conditionsa stable homeenough room to live on Earth30s