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1. Study pages 4-29.
2. Study vocabulary flashcards.
a. What is life?
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What are the characteristics of all living things?
o Be able to explain the 6 characteristics:
 cellular organization
 unicellular and multicellular
 the chemicals of life
 what is the most abundant chemical?
 use energy
 metabolism
 respond to their surroundings
 stimulus and response
 grow and develop
 reproduce
 asexual and sexual reproduction
Where do living things come from?
o Know what spontaneous generation is.
o What is a controlled experiment?
o Describe Redi’s experiment.
o Describe Pasteur’s experiment.
o What were these experiments trying to prove? How did they prove this?
What do living things need to survive?
o Be able to explain the 4 basic needs of all living things:
 Food
 Autotrophs
 heterotrophs
 Water
 Living space
 Stable internal conditions
 Homeostasis
b. Classifying Life
 Why do biologists classify organisms?
a. Define classification and taxonomy.
b. What did Carolus Linnaeus come up with?
i. Binomial nomenclature
ii. Using binomial nomenclature
c. Genus
d. species
 What are the levels of classification?
Tips to remember these:
a. Domain
Dear
b. Kingdom
King
c. Phylum
Phillips
d. Class
Came
e. Order
Over
f. Family
For
g. Genus
Good
h. Species
Spaghetti!
 How are taxonomic keys useful?
a. Be able to use a taxonomic key.
c. Domains and Kingdoms
 How are organisms classified into domains and kingdoms?
a. Based on 3 criteria – what are they?
b. 3 Domains
i. Domain Bacteria
 prokaryotes
 nucleus
ii. Domain Archaea
iii. Domain Eukarya
 Kingdoms
a. Protists
b. Fungi
c. Plants
d. animals
d. Evolution and Classification
 How are evolution and classification related?
 Evolution
 Understand natural selection
 Convergent evolution