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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What is the cell wall?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
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
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

2. Tertiary consumer
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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
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. Producer
How we adapt to our environment
RNA translate creating proteins
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

4. What is a scientific theory?
Mucus lining
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
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
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg

5. What is the chloroplast?

6. Gregor Mendel
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
The gene that shows up
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

7. What is descent with modification?
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
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
The cell duplicates

8. What is the digestive system responsible for?
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
Oldest organism; asexual
Breaking down and absorbing food
It's green and holds chlorophil

9. Stomach
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Mucus lining

10. During photosynthesis what do plants do?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

11. DNA
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored

12. Decomposer
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
Mucus lining
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

13. What is a phenotype?
Powerhouses of the cell
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

14. What happens in the anaphase?
Sexual and asexual
The gene that shows up
Cell starts to split
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

15. Large intestines
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

16. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Only mammals that lay eggs
Asexual and sexual
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

17. What are the ribosomes?
Breaking down and absorbing food
Absorbs the nutrients
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
RNA translate creating proteins

18. What is meiosis?
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

19. Algae
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
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
Oldest organism; asexual
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual

20. brain stem
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
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 testable explanation of a question or problem
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

21. What do organisms need?
Large storage container fluid
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
It's green and holds chlorophil

22. Esophages
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
The gene that shows up
Way of using energy
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

23. What are the two ways of reproduction?
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
Asexual and sexual
Cell starts to split
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

24. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
Oldest organism; asexual
Absorbs the nutrients
How we react
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

25. What is mitosis?

26. What is a recessive gene?
Everything in the membrane
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Complete metamorphosis - it's an amphbian (double life) Stage 1: egg hatches Stage 2: tadpole (looks like a fish) has a tail and no legs; breathes through gills (aquatic) Stage 3: grows legs - loses its gills and tails; starts breathing through nost
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

27. Where are red and white bloods formed?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Bone marrow
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

28. Fungi

29. What is a punnett square?
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Sexual and asexual
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
The cell duplicates

30. What are animal cells comprised of?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Number of organelles

31. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
How we adapt to our environment
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

32. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Large storage container fluid
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
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

33. What is adaptation?
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
It's green and holds chlorophil
How we adapt to our environment
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

34. What is the vacuole?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Large storage container fluid
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
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

35. Krebb Cycle
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

36. What is predation?
Oldest organism; asexual
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

37. What is gamete?
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual

38. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
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 carries blood to the heart
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

39. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
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

40. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

41. What is a dominant gene?
The gene that shows up
Breaking down and absorbing food
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

42. What are veins?
Only mammals that lay eggs
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

43. Angiosperms
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
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

44. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Only mammals that lay eggs

45. Photosynthesis
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
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Mucus lining
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

46. What is a genotype?

47. What do white blood cells do?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Everything in the membrane
Fight disease
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

48. What is mutualism?
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
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
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

49. What happens in prophase?
The cell duplicates
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
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
How we react

50. What do red blood cells do?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring