Module 1: Vocabulary Quiz

Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye:

A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data:

Naming an organism with its genus and species name:

Reproduction accomplished by a single organism:

A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units:

The sum total of all processes in an organisms which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism's life functions:

Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants:

Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms:

The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions:

All life forms contain:

All life forms can sense in their surroundings and to those changes

All life forms have a method by which they extract from the surroundings and convert it into that sustains them

All life forms

Reproduction that requires two organisms:

Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food:

Special structures that allow organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment:

An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents:

Organisms that eat only plants:

The sum total of all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life:

Organisms that are able to make their own food:

The sum total of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks:

A cell with distinct, membrane-bounded organelles:

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food:

Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms:

The science of classifying organisms:

Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food:

Deoxyribonucleic acid:

Organisms that produce their own food:

An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question:

A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bounded organelles:

A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data:

The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring: