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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. Advantages to asexual reproduction

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2. Secondary consumer
Asexual and sexual
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

3. What happens in the telephase?
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Sexually

4. Small intestines
Sexual and asexual
Absorbs the nutrients
It's green and holds chlorophil
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

5. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
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

6. What is a scientific theory?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
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
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created

7. What is osmosis?
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
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 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
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

8. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
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
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk

9. Photosynthesis
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
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
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

10. What are the ribosomes?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Bone marrow
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
RNA translate creating proteins

11. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
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
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
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

12. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
Oldest organism; asexual
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
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

13. What makes up the nervous system?
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
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
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

14. Primary consumer
Mucus lining
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
The gene that shows up
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

15. What is a genotype?

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16. What is cytoplasm?
Everything in the membrane
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

17. Ferns
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Sexual and asexual
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
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

18. What happens in the anaphase?
A blood vessel that carries blood to 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
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
Cell starts to split

19. What do organisms need?
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Fight disease
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized

20. System of classification?
How we react
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing

21. What is meiosis?
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
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane

22. Algae
Sexual and asexual
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Large storage container fluid
Oldest organism; asexual

23. What is response to stimuli?
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
How we react
Only mammals that lay eggs

24. What is the digestive system responsible for?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Breaking down and absorbing food

25. Finches
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Sexual and asexual
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Breaking down and absorbing food

26. Gymnosperms

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27. What is a recessive gene?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

28. What are arteries?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
An organism's combination of genes for a trait

29. What happens in prophase?
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
The cell duplicates
Sexual and asexual
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

30. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Cell starts to split
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

31. 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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Powerhouses of the cell
Mucus lining

32. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
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
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
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Body temperature (internal or external)

33. Mammals
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
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
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
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

34. 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
It's green and holds chlorophil
Sexual and asexual
Number of organelles

35. What do red blood cells do?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Body temperature (internal or external)
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

36. cerebellum
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
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
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

37. What do white blood cells do?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Fight disease
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

38. Stomach
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
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
Mucus lining

39. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
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
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

40. How do mammals reproduce?
Sexually
RNA translate creating proteins
It's green and holds chlorophil
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

41. What is predation?
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
The gene that shows up
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

42. What is adaptation?
How we adapt to our environment
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

43. What is natural selection?
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
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 cell duplicates
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

44. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
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

45. Decomposer
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

46. What are veins?
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Everything in the membrane
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

47. Where are red and white bloods formed?
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
Breaking down and absorbing food
Bone marrow
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

48. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
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
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
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
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

49. What is the nucleus?
Fight disease
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

50. What is heredity?
How we adapt to our environment
Absorbs the nutrients
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring