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Plantae, Animalia, Protista, and Fungi.Domain Eukarya - Name the four kingdoms.
Unicellular (organisms that have no nucleus and consist of only one cell)Organisms that are prokaryotic are...?
DeoxyriboNucleic Acid.DNA stands for...?
Archaea and Bacteria.Name the domains that are prokaryotic.
True.True or False: There are no multicellular prokaryotes.
Plantae + Fungi have cell walls. Some Protista have cell walls. No Animalia have cell walls.Which kingdom(s) in Eukarya all have cell walls? Which one(s) has/have only some organisms having cell walls? Which kingdom('s/s') organisms have no cell walls at all?
The ability to maintain a certain state.What is Homostasis?
Reptiles go near heat sources to warm themselves. Fish, however, can't do anything about the water temperature, so they swim to a spot with a different temperature or else die.Reptiles and fish are cold-blooded. How do they keep themselves cold/warm enough to live?
1 = Humans sweat. 2 = Blood vessels in the human body can dilate to change body temperature.How do humans keep themselves cool?
You are using your body heat to heat the water on your skin enough for it to evaporate.Say you just finished swimming and you come out. Drip-Drying, or waiting for the water to drip off or evaporate without a towel makes you cold because...?
A biosphere is just about the largest scale of the way of looking at biology. It consists of all the ecosystems in the world.What is a biosphere?
An ecosystem is a community of organisms in a certain type of terrain and climate.What is an ecosystem?
An organism is an individual living thing (e.g. animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.)What is an organism?
Cells are the building blocks of life - the basic unit of structure and function (cells are either eukaryotic or prokaryotic)What are cells?
They are the units of inherited information that are like instructions that tell the cells how to build an offspring.What does DNA and genes do?
The point is that life's diverse lifeforms are all made up of cells.What is the meaning of the cellular basis of life?
A producer is an organism that makes the food which the entire ecosystem depends on. -PlantsGive the definition and an example for a producer.
A consumer is an organism that eats the food which is made by the producers. -Animals, fungi, etc.Give the definition and an example for a consumer.
In biology, a scientific inquiry is the need to ask questions about nature, and then experiment to find answers to those questions.What is scientific inquiry?

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Terms 19
Creator WillWiz
Created September 27, 2007
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Subjects nucleus, protista, eukarya, fungi, plantae, dna, protists, nuclei, organisms, plants, archaea, bacteria, animalia, science, biology, animals
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Actually not a vocabulary thing... You'll find out it's actually a biology quiz. :P

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