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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What is a hypothesis?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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

2. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Sexual and asexual
The gene that shows up

3. What is a scientific theory?
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
RNA translate creating proteins
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
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created

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

5. What is descent with modification?
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
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 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 process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

6. What happens in prophase?
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
The cell duplicates
Number of organelles
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction

7. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
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
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
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

8. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly

9. What is response to stimuli?
How we react
Bone marrow
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

10. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
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
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
How we adapt to our environment
Fight disease

11. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Powerhouses of the cell
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

12. What is a recessive gene?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Asexual and sexual

13. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
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
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 gene that shows up
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

14. What is osmosis?
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
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
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
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

15. brain stem
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
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
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
Only mammals that lay eggs

16. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

17. What is natural selection?
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 organism's combination of genes for a trait
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
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

18. Life cycle of a butterfly
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
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
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
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 are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane

20. Secondary consumer
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
The gene that shows up
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
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. What is meiosis?
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Absorbs the nutrients
Mucus lining

22. What is mutualism?
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
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized

23. What is a dominant gene?
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
The gene that shows up
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
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

24. Primary consumer
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

25. What do red blood cells do?
Cell starts to split
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
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
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

26. What are veins?
Asexual and sexual
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
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

27. Large intestines
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
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
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

28. What are arteries?
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
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

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

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30. Tertiary consumer
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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

31. What do white blood cells do?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Body temperature (internal or external)
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
Fight disease

32. What happens in the telephase?
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
Mucus lining
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created

33. Gregor Mendel
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
RNA translate creating proteins
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
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

34. Where are red and white bloods formed?
Body temperature (internal or external)
Powerhouses of the cell
Bone marrow
Asexual and sexual

35. What is adaptation?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
How we adapt to our environment
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

36. What is the cell membrane?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Bone marrow

37. What happens in metaphase?
Powerhouses of the 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
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

38. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

39. cerebellum
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
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
Mucus lining

40. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
The gene that shows up
Powerhouses of the cell
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

41. Algae
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Oldest organism; asexual
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

42. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Mucus lining
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
Sexual and asexual
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

43. 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
Everything in the membrane
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Only mammals that lay eggs

44. What is cytoplasm?
Absorbs the nutrients
Everything in the membrane
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane

45. What is mitosis?

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46. What is a punnett square?
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Body temperature (internal or external)
Cell starts to split
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

47. Krebb Cycle
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
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
How we adapt to our environment

48. What is the digestive system responsible for?
Breaking down and absorbing food
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk

49. Angiosperms
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
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

50. What are the two ways of reproduction?
The gene that shows up
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Asexual and sexual