Ch 1 Sections 2 & 4
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| Characteristics of living organisms | obtain and use energy, respond to stimuli, reproduce, and grow and develop
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| Required resources for life | food, oxygen, and water
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| autotrophs | make their own food for energy (plants)
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| heterotrophs | cannot make their own food (animals)
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| respiration | the process by which energy is released from food
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| stimulus | any change in an organism’s surroundings that will cause the organism to react.
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| response | The reaction to a stimulus
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| examples of environmental stimuli | amount of light, changes in temperature, sound, amount of water, space, amounts and types of food.
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| Asexual reproduction | a reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that is identical to the parent.
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| Sexual reproduction | a reproductive process that involves two parents that produce offspring that are different from both parents.
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| female reproductive cell | egg
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| male reproductive cell | sperm
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| Growth | the process whereby an organism becomes larger.
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| Development | the process that occurs in the life of the organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally.
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| Organisms require _____ to grow and develop. | energy
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| taxonomy | The study of how scientists classify organisms
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| An organism is placed into a broad group and is then placed into more specific groups based its ______ | structures
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| The levels of classification | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
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| The more classification levels an organism shares with another, the more ____ they have in common. | characteristics
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| The 5 Kingdoms | Plants, Animals, Fungi, Protists, Monerans
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| Organisms are placed into kingdoms based on their ability to ____ ______ and the number of _____ in their body. | make food; cells
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| _____ are normally divided into two groups: vascular and nonvascular. | Plants
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| The Animal Kingdom is divided into ___ different phyla. | 35
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| The Animal Kingdom is divided into two groups | vertebrates and invertebrates.
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| species | organisms of the same type which are able to breed and produce young of the same kind.
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| The scientific name of an organism is made up of its ____ and ____. | genus and species
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| When writing a scientific name the _____ name is capitalized. | genus
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