Content Domain II: Organisms – Flashcards
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Is a special molecule that stores and releases engery in its bonds when the cell needs it. The energy stored is released when ATP is split into ADP.
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ATP
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Is the energy stored and released.
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ADP
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Autotrophs are organisms that can "make their own food" from an inorganic source of carbon (carbon dioxide) given a source of energy.
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Autotrophs
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Plants, algae, and other photosynthetic organisms are important to the maintenance and balance of life. They convert solar energy to chemical energy in the form of carbohydrates. This process takes place in the chloroplasts of plants. The pigment chlorophyll traps the light that the lants use to make glucose.
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Photosynthesis
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The chloroplast, basically, is the organelle responsible for photosynthesis
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Chloroplast
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The pigment that traps the light that the plants use to make glucose.
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Chlorophyll
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When energy is released from food.
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Cellular Respiration
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The grouping of objects based on similarities.
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Classification
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The branch of biology dealing with the grouping and naming of organisms.
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Taxonomy
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A person that studies the grouping and naming of organisms.
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Taxonomist
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Eukaryotic, unicellular and multicellular, cell wall mad eof chitin and is heterotrophic (external digestion). Ex., moss, ferns, trees.
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Fungi
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An introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information.
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Plantae
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Obtaining food from organic material only; unable to use inorganic matter to form proteins and carbohydrates ...
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Heterotrophic
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A scientific name is given in the Linnaean System because all living organisms are called different things in different languages.
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Linneaus
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The scientific naming of species whereby each species receives a Latin or Latinized name of two parts.
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Binomial Nomenclature
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The primary subdivision of a taxonomic kingdom, grouping together all classes of organisms that have the same body plan.
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Plylum
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The usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
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Genus
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A class of individuals having some common characteristics.
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Species
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Belonging to the Kingdom Protista, which include mostly unicellular organisms.
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Protista
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Belonging to a kingdom that does not include prokaryotes.
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Animalia
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Is a polysaccharide found in the outer skeleton of insects, crabs, shrimps, and lobsters and in the internal structures of other invertebrates. ...
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Chitin
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The Family category of scientific classification in biology is a method by which biologists group and categorize organisms by biological type, such as genus or species.
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Family
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The organization of living things can be seen like a pyramid or tree with seven major levels or categories along with the common name: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (Subspecies). Taxonomy often includes the "Common Name" for reference.
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Order
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The usual major subdivision of a phylum or division in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of several orders.
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Class
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Able to live in a variety of environments, archaebacteria are known as extremophiles. Certain species are able to live in extreme conditions.
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Archaebacteria
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Spherical or rod-shaped bacteria , characterized by simple, undifferentiated cells with rigid walls.
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Eubacteria
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A polymer that is composed of polysaccharide and peptide chains and is found especially in bacterial cell walls called also mucopeptide murein.
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Peptidoglycan
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The chief constituent of the cell walls of plants and of wood, cotton, hemp, paper, etc.
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Cellulose
