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The idea that life could spring from nonliving matter is called
Spontaneous generation
The scientific study of how living things are classified is called
taxonomy
A genus is divided into
species
The basic units of structure in all living things
Cells
In plant and animal cells, the control center of the cell is the _________.
Nucleus
Bacteria are ___________________ organisms.
unicellular
Linnaeus devised a system of naming organisms called _____________ ____________.
Binomial nomenclature
The gray wolf, Canis lupus and the red wolf, Canis rufus belong to the same
genus
Cells were discovered using
Light microscopes
Ribosomes make ___________________.
Proteins
An organism's ability to maintain stable internal conditions is called _________________.
Homeostasis.
The two kingdoms that contain only heterotrophs are animals and ________________.
Fungi
The process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism is called ______________________.
Development
A structure that is found in plant cells, but not in animal cells is a _________________.
Cell wall.
Archaea is NOT one of the four kingdoms of _________________________.
Eukaryotes
The dense portion of some cells containing nucleic acids is called the ______________.
Nucleus
