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Study Guide Spontaneous Generation & Life
1. Know all the definitions! This includes vocabulary sheets and vocabulary in
the notes!
2. Define Spontaneous Generation:
Spontaneous generation is the idea that life can arise from nonliving matter
3. Give an example of spontaneous generation:
“The meat made the maggots” or that hay makes mice
4. Who was the first scientist to disprove spontaneous generation?
Francesco Redi
5. How did he disprove spontaneous generation (what was the experiment)?
Draw the experiment and label it with all the parts of an experiment
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6. Who is Louis Pasteur?
a. The last person to disprove spontaneous generation
b. The father of modern bacteriology
7. How did he disprove the theory of spontaneous generation? Draw and
describe his experiment.
Pasteur created a new curved neck flask to prove that micro-organisms
in the air produced life, not the broth that was non living
8. List and define the Characteristics of life:
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Growth: to increase in size and matter
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Reproduction: to make more of your own kind
o Asexual reproduction =1 parent, and offspring are exact copies
of parents
o Sexual reproduction= 2 parents , offspring resemble the
parents
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Response: the reaction to stimuli
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Metabolism: All the chemical reactions/activities in an organism
including taking in food and getting rid of waste
9. What are the stages of Metabolism?(define them as well as list)
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Ingestion: taking food in
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Digestion: breaking food into simpler substances
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Respiration: food + O2 = Energy
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Excretion: getting rid of waste
10. What is metabolism called in plants?
Photosynthesis (the chemical reactions in plants)
11. What is Homeostasis? Give examples
The ability of an organism to maintain their internal condition constant
Ex: shivering, sweating & blood sugar
12. What are the 5 needs of living things?
Food
Oxygen
Water
Environment
Energy
13. What is an autotroph?
An autotroph is an organism that can make its own food. Producer,
maker
14. What is a heterotroph?
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot make its own food and must
eat other organisms to get energy: Consumer, taker
15. What is the main source of energy for every living thing?
The sun is the main or primary source of energy for every living thing
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16. What is adaptation? Give an example too.
Adaptation is the trait or characteristic that helps an organism live in
its environment. “How a body changes to fit a location.”
EX: arctic fox, arctic rabbit
17. List and define the organization of living things from the simplest to the
most complex (complicated).
Cell: the basic unit of structure and function of all living things. The
smallest and simplest form of life
Tissue: groups of cells working together
Organ: groups of tissue working together
Systems: groups of organs working together
Organisms: systems working together that form the individual