Question |
Answer |
The idea that living things come from nonliving things is known as what? |
spontaneous generation |
The theory that living things only come from other living things is know as what? |
biogenesis |
Who suggested that the Earth's early atmosphere had no oxygen but was made up of the gases ammonia, hydrogen, methane, and water vapor? |
Alexander I. Oparin |
Placing similar items together is called what? |
Classification |
The evolutionary history of an organism, or how it has changed over time is known as what? |
Phylogeny |
Who developed a new system of grouping organisms with similar structures? |
Carolus Linnaeus |
Who observed living things and decided that any organism could be classified as a plant or an animal? |
Aristotle |
What is the first and largest category in the classification system? |
kingdom |
What is the smallest category in the classification system? |
species |
What is the two-word naming system that Linnaeus used to name various species? |
binomial nomenclature |
What is a group of similar species called? |
genus |
A detailed list of identifying characteristics that includes scientific names is called what? |
dichotomous key |
What type of key has brackets that end up looking like a tournament bracket? |
parallel key |
What is our scientific name? |
Homo sapien |
What language are scientific names in? |
Latin |
The work of Louis Pasteur disproved what theory? |
spontaneous generation |
Scientists today classify organisms into how many kingdoms? |
6 |
What did Redi place in jars to observe and prove that living things did not come from unliving things? |
meat |
Who disproved spontaneous generation by boiling broth in s-necked flasks that were open to the air? |
Louis Pasteur |
What did John Needham put in flasks to observe? |
broth |
Who used boiled broth in flasks and found that only the flasks he opened became cloudy with contamination? |
Spallanzani |
What are the two parts of a scientific name? |
genus and species |
Will boiled broth kept in a sealed flask for one month contain oganisms? |
no |