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| Life on Earth shares a common? |
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| What are the big four elements of life? |
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| carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogon |
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| Organisms are composed of? |
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| What are the ways organisms can be composed of cells? |
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| Unicellular, multicellular, colonial |
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| What are the two types of cells? |
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| Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes |
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| Why are camel red blood cells nucleated? |
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| Most red blood cells abandon a nucleus when they become biconcave. Camel red blood cells remain ovular in order to have the ability to hold copious amounts of water without rupturing. This allows them to keep their nucleus. |
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| All organisms attempt to gain and retain...? |
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| Organisms undergo _____ processes |
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| What metabolic process breaks down things for use? |
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| What metabolic process builds proteins? |
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| All life has spans and cycles? T or F |
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| What must occur to living organisms before maturity? |
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| What does biological maturity mean? |
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| What stage is most of an organism's life spent in and why? |
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| Maturity, for maximum reproduction |
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| What stage does an organism enter after maturity? |
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| What is the final event of a living thing? |
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| All organisms compete in a conquest for...? What is the main source of this? |
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| Organisms are capable of responding to... |
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| Organisms have a common? (2 things) |
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| genetic code and evolution |
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| What is the organization and naming of organisms? |
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| Name the 6 kingdoms of life and what they are |
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Archaea - ancient bacteria that live in harsh conditions
Eubacteria - bacteria
Protista- unclassified
Plantae - photosynthetic multicellular
Fungi - heterotrophic, not plants
Animalia |
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| What are plant like protists? Why are they considered plant-like? |
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| Algae, presence of chlorophyll and photosynthesis |
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| What are animal like protists? An example? |
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| What is color defined as? |
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| pigmentation or lack thereof, special properties of light |
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| What is most common pigment? What does it color? |
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| melanin, eyes skin and hair |
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| What organisms do not have pigments? |
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| Protists, and many larvae |
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| What color pigments do birds not have? How is this possible? |
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| Why do organisms have color? |
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| camouflage and patterns for protection |
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| What is a practice where one organism copies another? |
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| What are defining traits of males that attract females? |
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| What type of shape is no definite body shape? |
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| What type of shape is body parts extending out identically like a wheel? |
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| What type of shape is two divided parts look alike? |
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| What is splitting in half to reproduce? |
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| What is using spores or chipping off from the original to reproduce? |
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| What is reproduction that invites variety? |
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| Organism that has both sexes in one body? |
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| Organisms that has only one sex in its body? |
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| what is it called when an organism uses sulfur and other chemicals to metabolize? |
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| What were two of the most important events in the history of diversity of life on Earth? |
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| Aerobic Respiration and Sexual reproduction |
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| What is an organism's ability to grow back lost body parts? |
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| What is an organism's ability to reform if split apart? |
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| What is an organism that produces its own food? |
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| Are carnivorous plants autotrophs or heterotrophs? |
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| Autotrophs, but they supplement their own resources with insects |
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| What is an organism that consumes food? |
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| What are the three types of heterotrophs and what do they eat? |
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Herbivores - plant material
Carnivore - meat
Omnivore - mix of both |
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| What does free living mean? |
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| What do sessile adults usually start as? |
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| What is an intimate relationship between two organisms? |
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| What is an organism that lives in a host at the host's expense? |
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| Organism that lives on the outside and can be a vector for disease |
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| Organism that lives inside the host |
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| What is commensal symbiosis? |
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| Relationship that neither helps nor hurts |
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| What are organisms that benefit each other? |
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