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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What is descent with modification?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
The theory that more recent species of organisms are changed descendants of earlier species; present organisms are related to past organisms; basically says that evolution occurs in nature
The right atrium receives blood from the rest of the body - The blood moves into the right ventricle - The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs - In the lungs - the blood is filled with oxygen and carbon dioxide leaves the the blood and is ex

2. Life cycle of a frog

3. Tertiary consumer
Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive. ex. fish lay thousands of eggs - but only a few live to be adult fish. Individuals in a population have slight variations. ex. fish in a population differ slightly in color - length - fin siz
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Cell starts to split
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

4. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
Everything in the membrane
1) Transporting water and nutrients 2) Light energy from the sun 3) Carbon dioxide from the air 4) Back to the transport system 5) From plant food to your table
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly

5. Finches
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

6. What happens in metaphase?
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Body temperature (internal or external)

7. What is metabolism?
Way of using energy
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk

8. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
The theory that more recent species of organisms are changed descendants of earlier species; present organisms are related to past organisms; basically says that evolution occurs in nature
An explanation that has undergone many tests; many different kinds of evidence dupport a scientific theory; no evidence can contradict - or disagree with - the explanation
Fossil records - embryos of some kinds of organisms go through similar stages of development - vestigal structures (a body part that appears to be useless to an organism) ex. snakes and whales have the remnants of leg bones and pelvic bones. Homologu
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

9. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive. ex. fish lay thousands of eggs - but only a few live to be adult fish. Individuals in a population have slight variations. ex. fish in a population differ slightly in color - length - fin siz
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

10. What happens in prophase?
Fight disease
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
How we react
The cell duplicates

11. What is cytoplasm?
Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive. ex. fish lay thousands of eggs - but only a few live to be adult fish. Individuals in a population have slight variations. ex. fish in a population differ slightly in color - length - fin siz
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Everything in the membrane
Large storage container fluid

12. Algae
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Oldest organism; asexual

13. Advantages to asexual reproduction

14. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Powerhouses of the cell
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Number of organelles
Fight disease

15. What are animal cells comprised of?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Number of organelles

16. What happens in the anaphase?
Cell starts to split
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

17. What is homeostasis?
Body temperature (internal or external)
Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive. ex. fish lay thousands of eggs - but only a few live to be adult fish. Individuals in a population have slight variations. ex. fish in a population differ slightly in color - length - fin siz
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
How we react

18. What is the vacuole?
Mucus lining
Large storage container fluid
RNA translate creating proteins
Gravity - a plant seed is planted in the soil (total darkness) but because of geotropism (response to gravity) the stem goes upwards and the roots downward Light - phototropism (responding to light) Stress - an external factor (frost - stepped on

19. What is a genotype?

20. What is a recessive gene?
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive. ex. fish lay thousands of eggs - but only a few live to be adult fish. Individuals in a population have slight variations. ex. fish in a population differ slightly in color - length - fin siz
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

21. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored

22. Krebb Cycle
Organisms tend to produce more offspring than can survive. ex. fish lay thousands of eggs - but only a few live to be adult fish. Individuals in a population have slight variations. ex. fish in a population differ slightly in color - length - fin siz
Oldest organism; asexual
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

23. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing

24. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Gravity - a plant seed is planted in the soil (total darkness) but because of geotropism (response to gravity) the stem goes upwards and the roots downward Light - phototropism (responding to light) Stress - an external factor (frost - stepped on
The gene that shows up

25. What are the three parts of the brain?
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

26. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
A testable explanation of a question or problem
One member benifits - the other is unaffected ex. fish on whales - the fish are eating scraps that the whale leaves behind and is getting the benifit of transportation

27. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
The theory that more recent species of organisms are changed descendants of earlier species; present organisms are related to past organisms; basically says that evolution occurs in nature
Sexual and asexual

28. Stomach
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Mucus lining
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together

29. Life cycle of a butterfly
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Complete metamorphosis - changes in form during development in which earlier stages do not look like the adult. Stage 1: butterfly egg hatches into a caterpillar Stage 2: caterpillar feeds on leaves - molting several times as it grows Stage 3: when a
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

30. Mammals
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Named for mammary glands; milk producing - have hair covering most of their bodies; helps keep heat in - have lungs - warm - blooded; body temperature that stays the same - young develops inside their mother (except animal species kangaroos and oposs
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

31. What happens during respiration?
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Sexual and asexual
Everything in the membrane
Animals and plants take in oxygen and use it to reverse the chemical reaction to photosynthesis - breaking down carbohydrates and releasing energy stored in their chemical bonds

32. Rectum
Sexual and asexual
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
A testable explanation of a question or problem

33. Ferns
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Sexual and asexual
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

34. How does blood circulate?
1) Transporting water and nutrients 2) Light energy from the sun 3) Carbon dioxide from the air 4) Back to the transport system 5) From plant food to your table
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
Everything in the membrane
The right atrium receives blood from the rest of the body - The blood moves into the right ventricle - The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs - In the lungs - the blood is filled with oxygen and carbon dioxide leaves the the blood and is ex

35. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Only mammals that lay eggs
Powerhouses of the cell
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Fight disease

36. Gregor Mendel
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
How we react
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

37. What is mutualism?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
One member benifits - the other is unaffected ex. fish on whales - the fish are eating scraps that the whale leaves behind and is getting the benifit of transportation
Bone marrow

38. Salivary glands
Large storage container fluid
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Gravity - a plant seed is planted in the soil (total darkness) but because of geotropism (response to gravity) the stem goes upwards and the roots downward Light - phototropism (responding to light) Stress - an external factor (frost - stepped on
An organism's combination of genes for a trait

39. What is heredity?
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Named for mammary glands; milk producing - have hair covering most of their bodies; helps keep heat in - have lungs - warm - blooded; body temperature that stays the same - young develops inside their mother (except animal species kangaroos and oposs
Animals and plants take in oxygen and use it to reverse the chemical reaction to photosynthesis - breaking down carbohydrates and releasing energy stored in their chemical bonds

40. What are the ribosomes?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
RNA translate creating proteins
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Explains how evolution occurs - the process by which organisms best suited to the environment survive - reproduce - and pass their genes to the next generation - ex. snakes that have a specialized upper tooth to cut their way out of their shell; thus

41. What is a dominant gene?
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
The gene that shows up
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

42. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Breaking down and absorbing food

43. What are the two ways of reproduction?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Asexual and sexual
Mucus lining
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

44. What is meiosis?
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

45. Large intestines
An explanation that has undergone many tests; many different kinds of evidence dupport a scientific theory; no evidence can contradict - or disagree with - the explanation
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
How we adapt to our environment
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

46. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Offspring are exact copies of the parent; lacks diversity - respond to changes in the environment; if a change kills one of the offspring - it will probably kill them all
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
1) Transporting water and nutrients 2) Light energy from the sun 3) Carbon dioxide from the air 4) Back to the transport system 5) From plant food to your table

47. Gymnosperms

48. System of classification?
Large storage container fluid
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

49. Photosynthesis
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

50. DNA
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration