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Science chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| study of living things | biology |
| layer of earths surface where life exists | biosphere |
| living thing | organism |
| smallest unit of any living thing | cell |
| barrier that surrounds and protects the cell | cell membrane |
| jelly- like substance within the cell | cytoplasm |
| "little organ" within the cell where chemical reactions occur | organelle |
| control center of a cell; Stores DNA | nucleus |
| passing of characteristics from parent to offspring | heredity |
| who named the cell? | Robert Hooke |
| science of classification | taxonomy |
| microscopic organism | microorganism |
| organism having more than one cell | multicellular organism |
| organism having only one cell | unicellular |
| single-celled microorganism that does not have a nucleus (bacteria plural) | bacterium |
| unicellular organism without a true nucelus | prokaryote |
| tail-like organ on some cells that propels them | flagellum |
| organism whose cells have a true nucleus | eukaryote |
| study of animals and how they live | zoology |
| animal kingdom consists of multicellular organism that are consumers | kingdom Animalia |
| animal with a backbone | vertebrae |
| internal skeleton | endoskeleton |
| ability of an object to be divided into equal halves that are mirror images | symmetry |
| animal without a backbone | invertebrate |
| external skeleton | exoskeleton |
| inability of an object to be divided | asymmetry |
| inve |