Organism
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A living thing
Something that has all of the characteristics of life

Cell
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The basic unit of life

Unicellular
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An organism that is made up of 1 cell

Multicellular
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Organisms that are made up of more than one cell

Homeostasis
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The ability of an organism to keep internal conditions stable, no matter what is changing in the environment

What are the characteristics of life?
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Response to stimuli
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Homeostasis
Reproduction
Organized
Use energy
Grow and develop
Adapt and evolve

What is organization?
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Parts do specific jobs to make the whole organism work
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Atoms  organisms

What is growth? What is development?
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Growth=getting bigger
Development=changes that happen during lifetime

What is reproduction?
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Making babies

What is stimulus? What is a response?
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Stimulus=something that causes a response
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Ball thrown
Response=the reaction
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Blinked

Where does all energy ultimately come from?
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The sun
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Even meat-Animal ate animals that ate plants that got their energy from the sun

Binomial nomenclature
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2-word naming system for organisms

Species
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Closely related organisms that can mate and have fertile offspring

Genus
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Closely related species

Dichotomous Key
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Tool for identifying organisms
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2 options

Cladogram
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Branching diagram showing evolutionary relationships between organisms

Parts of scientific name
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Genus species

6 Kingdoms
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Animalia
Plantae
Fungi
Protista
Archaea
Bacteria

3 Domains
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Eukarya (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista)
Bacteria (Bacteria)
Archaea (Archaea)

Why use scientific names?
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Universal names
Avoids confusion over organisms
Very specific

Why is Carolus Linnaeus important?
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Kingdoms
Binomial nomenclature

Classification levels
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Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Scientific names of humans and favorite animal-Write correctly
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Homo sapiens
Dracorex hogwartsia

3 Rules for Scientific Names
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1. 1 st word capitalized
2. 2 nd word lowercase
3. Both names underlined