Sections 3,4: Life
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| The idea that living things come from nonliving things is known as what? | spontaneous generation
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| The theory that living things only come from other living things is know as what? | biogenesis
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| Who suggested that the Earth's early atmosphere had no oxygen but was made up of the gases ammonia, hydrogen, methane, and water vapor? | Alexander I. Oparin
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| Placing similar items together is called what? | Classification
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| The evolutionary history of an organism, or how it has changed over time is known as what? | Phylogeny
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| Who developed a new system of grouping organisms with similar structures? | Carolus Linnaeus
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| Who observed living things and decided that any organism could be classified as a plant or an animal? | Aristotle
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| What is the first and largest category in the classification system? | kingdom
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| What is the smallest category in the classification system? | species
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| What is the two-word naming system that Linnaeus used to name various species? | binomial nomenclature
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| What is a group of similar species called? | genus
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| A detailed list of identifying characteristics that includes scientific names is called what? | dichotomous key
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| What type of key has brackets that end up looking like a tournament bracket? | parallel key
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| What is our scientific name? | Homo sapien
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| What language are scientific names in? | Latin
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| The work of Louis Pasteur disproved what theory? | spontaneous generation
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| Scientists today classify organisms into how many kingdoms? | 6
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| What did Redi place in jars to observe and prove that living things did not come from unliving things? | meat
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| Who disproved spontaneous generation by boiling broth in s-necked flasks that were open to the air? | Louis Pasteur
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| What did John Needham put in flasks to observe? | broth
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| Who used boiled broth in flasks and found that only the flasks he opened became cloudy with contamination? | Spallanzani
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| What are the two parts of a scientific name? | genus and species
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| Will boiled broth kept in a sealed flask for one month contain oganisms? | no
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