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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk

2. brain stem
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
Large storage container fluid
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
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

3. Salivary glands
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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Asexual and sexual

4. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Largest part of the brain; controls the way we think - learn - remember - and feel. Controls muscles that let you move body parts - interprets messages from the sense organs. It's divided into two halves; left controls activities on the right side of
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

5. What is metabolism?
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Way of using energy
How we react
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

6. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Only mammals that lay eggs
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Sexual and asexual

7. What is a dominant gene?
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
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
The gene that shows up
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

8. Advantages to asexual reproduction

9. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
The cell duplicates
Only mammals that lay eggs
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly

10. What are the 5 steps in 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
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Everything in the membrane

11. What are arteries?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
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
How we react
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

12. What happens in metaphase?
The gene that shows up
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

13. What are animal cells comprised of?
Number of organelles
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

14. How does blood circulate?
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
Breaking down and absorbing food
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

15. What is osmosis?
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
Sexual and asexual
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
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

16. What are the stages of cell division?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Body temperature (internal or external)
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Oldest organism; asexual

17. What is mutualism?
The gene that shows up
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Cell starts to split

18. During photosynthesis what do plants do?
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Body temperature (internal or external)
Mucus lining

19. What is a genotype?

20. Gregor Mendel
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
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
Oldest organism; asexual

21. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Cell starts to split
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

22. Angiosperms
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
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
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

23. What are the two ways of reproduction?
Asexual and sexual
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
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

24. Krebb Cycle
Sexually
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
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

25. Esophages
The gene that shows up
Powerhouses of the cell
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

26. What is the chloroplast?

27. Stomach
Sexually
Mucus lining
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

28. Primary consumer
Cell starts to split
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
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
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

29. What do red blood cells do?
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
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

30. What is a hypothesis?
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
Sexually
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem

31. Life cycle of a butterfly
Fight disease
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
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

32. What is a scientific theory?
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
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
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
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

33. What is parasitism?

34. Secondary consumer
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
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
Everything in the membrane
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

35. Large intestines
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
The cell duplicates
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Largest part of the brain; controls the way we think - learn - remember - and feel. Controls muscles that let you move body parts - interprets messages from the sense organs. It's divided into two halves; left controls activities on the right side of

36. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
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
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Cell starts to split

37. What is commensalism?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
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

38. What is adaptation?
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Breaking down and absorbing food
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
How we adapt to our environment

39. What happens in the anaphase?
Body temperature (internal or external)
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
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
Cell starts to split

40. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
How we react
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

41. Gymnosperms

42. What is the vacuole?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Large storage container fluid
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

43. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
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
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
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
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts

44. DNA
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
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

45. What is heredity?
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Sexual and asexual
Mucus lining

46. What is the cell membrane?
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

47. What do white blood cells do?
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
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Fight disease
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

48. What is descent with modification?
Number of organelles
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
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

49. Mammals
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
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
Powerhouses of the cell
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

50. Decomposer
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored