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Unit 2: Classification of Life Review Guide
1. What are the characteristics of living things? Include the characteristics we discussed in
class and the characteristics from the book.
2. Some scientists classify viruses as living and other classify them as non-living. List two
arguments that justify viruses being living and two arguments that justify them as non-living.
3. What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
4. How are organisms with eukaryotic cells different from those that have prokaryotic cells?
5. How are autotrophs different from heterotrophs? What are the two types of autotrophs?
6. What is a cell wall?
7. Fill out the following chart on the 5 kingdoms.
Kingdom
Bacteria
Fungus
Protist
Animal
Plant
Eukaryote
or
Prokaryote?
Cell Wall?
Heterotroph,
autotroph?
Multicellular
or
unicellular?
Biotic?