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Intro to biology
flashcards for the first test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organisms that do not make their own food. They must obtain their food by eating it or by ingesting it in some other way. | Heterotroph |
| Organisms that make their own food. | Autotroph |
| If an organism can be divided into two mirror images by any cut longways from top to bottom, it has this type of symmetry. | Radial Symmetry |
| If an organism can be divided into mirror images by only one cut from top to bottom, it has this kind of symmetry. | Bilateral Symmetry |
| On the back. | Dorsal |
| On the underside. | Ventral |
| The Kingdom that contains one-celled organisms with no nuclei (such as bacteria.) | Monera |
| The Kingdom that contains mostly one-celled animal-like water-dwelling organisms (such as euglena) and plant-like single or multicellular organisms (algae). | Protista |
| Kingdom containing organisms that break down (decompose) other dead organisms for food (mushrooms). | Fungi |
| The current two-name system of naming all living things | Binomial Nomenclature |
| A series of questions used to classify and name living things. | Biological Key |
| The scientist who developed our current system of classifying living things. | Linnaeus |
| The science of classifying organisms. | Taxonomy |
| Stuck in one place. | Sessile |
| The seven levels used in our current taxonomic system. | Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species |