MTTC Integrated Science Ultimate Educational Prowess.

over 1 million species and about 30 divisions # of insects 800,000 species, half of animal kingdom Characteristics of animal kingdom muliticellular, heterotrophic, reproduce sexually, do not have cell walls or chloroplasts, can move at some stage of life, can rapidly respond to environment due to specialized tissues like nerve and muscle Heterotrophic method of getting energy by eating food that has energy releasing substances Mendel Father of genetics, experimented with pea plants to observe inherited traits McClintock Created the first genetic map for maize, demonstrated recombination, how transposition flips the switch for traits. Watson and Crick Discovered the structure of DNA double helix and helped explain how DNA replicates. Leeuwenhoek First to observe single celled organisms with homemade magnifying glass. Observed bacteria, yeast, plants and other microscopic organisms. Linnaeus Created a method of classifying plants and animals, a way to organize and study large amounts of data, called Linnaean taxonomy. Darwin