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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. System of classification?
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
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

2. Large intestines
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
How we adapt to our environment
One member benifits and one is harmed ex. tape worm living in an animal's intestines - the animal is harmed - but the tape worm benifit because it gets food in the intestines

3. How does blood circulate?
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Only mammals that lay eggs
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
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

4. Ferns
Number of organelles
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Sexual and asexual
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created

5. What makes up the nervous system?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
How we react
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

6. Primary consumer
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Body temperature (internal or external)
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

7. What happens in the anaphase?
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
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Cell starts to split

8. What is natural selection?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
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

9. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
Fight disease
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

10. What is a hypothesis?
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
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Absorbs the nutrients

11. What is a punnett square?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
The movement of water through a cell membrane; osmosis causes salt to move across a permeable membrane from an area of greater salinity to an area of lesser salinity
How we adapt to our environment

12. What is mitosis?

13. What is metabolism?
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
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
Way of using energy

14. Krebb Cycle
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Sexually
The movement of water through a cell membrane; osmosis causes salt to move across a permeable membrane from an area of greater salinity to an area of lesser salinity
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

15. What is the cell wall?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
RNA translate creating proteins
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Everything in the membrane

16. What is response to stimuli?
How we react
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Way of using energy

17. What is the nucleus?
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

18. cerebrum

19. How do mammals reproduce?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Sexually
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

20. What are the stages of cell division?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Lies under the cerebellum; connects the brain and spinal cord. Controls the automatic activities of the body (heart rate - gland secretions - digestion - resptration - and circulation

21. Small intestines
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
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
Absorbs the nutrients

22. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly

23. Life cycle of a butterfly
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
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Asexual and sexual

24. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
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
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
The gene that shows up
Only mammals that lay eggs

25. What is the vacuole?
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Large storage container fluid
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
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

26. What is a phenotype?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Cell starts to split
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
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

27. What are the three parts of the brain?
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

28. What is parasitism?

29. What do red blood cells do?
How we adapt to our environment
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Body temperature (internal or external)

30. What is osmosis?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
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
The movement of water through a cell membrane; osmosis causes salt to move across a permeable membrane from an area of greater salinity to an area of lesser salinity

31. Finches
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

32. What is predation?
Number of organelles
How we react
Lies under the cerebellum; connects the brain and spinal cord. Controls the automatic activities of the body (heart rate - gland secretions - digestion - resptration - and circulation
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

33. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Powerhouses of the cell

34. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
A testable explanation of a question or problem

35. What is the digestive system responsible for?
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Way of using energy
Breaking down and absorbing food

36. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
An organism's combination of genes for a trait

37. Gymnosperms

38. What happens in the telephase?
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Oldest organism; asexual
Only mammals that lay eggs
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

39. What is chlorophyll? and where is it stored?

40. What is descent with modification?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
The cell duplicates
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
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

41. Algae
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Oldest organism; asexual
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

42. What are the two ways of reproduction?
Asexual and sexual
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

43. What is a dominant gene?
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Mucus lining
The gene that shows up

44. What do white blood cells do?
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
Fight disease
Powerhouses of the cell
Breaking down and absorbing food

45. brain stem
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Lies under the cerebellum; connects the brain and spinal cord. Controls the automatic activities of the body (heart rate - gland secretions - digestion - resptration - and circulation

46. Rectum
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
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

47. What is mutualism?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
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
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
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem

48. Angiosperms
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

49. Gregor Mendel
Powerhouses of the cell
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
RNA translate creating proteins

50. What is a recessive gene?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene