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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
Way of using energy
Bone marrow
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

2. What do organisms need?
The gene that shows up
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

3. Ferns
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Sexual and asexual
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Mucus lining

4. Tertiary consumer
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
The cell duplicates
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

5. What is predation?
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

6. What is metabolism?
Way of using energy
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
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

7. What is homeostasis?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Body temperature (internal or external)
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

8. What is adaptation?
How we adapt to our environment
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
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 gene that shows up

9. What is gamete?
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Cell starts to split
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
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

10. What is the cell membrane?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
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
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

11. What is mitrochondria?
Absorbs the nutrients
Powerhouses of the cell
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

12. What is cytoplasm?
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Everything in the membrane
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
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

13. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
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
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

14. What is natural selection?
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
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
How we adapt to our environment

15. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Only mammals that lay eggs
Breaking down and absorbing food
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

16. Decomposer
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
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

17. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

18. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Absorbs the nutrients
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell

19. How does blood circulate?
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
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

20. Rectum
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
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
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Bone marrow

21. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Mucus lining
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
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Breaking down and absorbing food

22. Primary consumer
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Breaking down and absorbing food
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

23. What is the chloroplast?

24. DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem

25. What is response to stimuli?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Fight disease
How we react

26. Esophages
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
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
How we react

27. What is osmosis?
Absorbs the nutrients
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
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

28. What are animal cells comprised of?
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Number of organelles
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
Sexual and asexual

29. What are arteries?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Sexual and asexual
Mucus lining
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

30. What is mitosis?

31. What is parasitism?

32. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

33. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Number of organelles
Body temperature (internal or external)
Sexual and asexual
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

34. Secondary consumer
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

35. What happens in metaphase?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
How we adapt to our environment
The cell duplicates

36. What is the nucleus?
Cell starts to split
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
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

37. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
How we react
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

38. 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
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Oldest organism; asexual
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

39. Photosynthesis
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
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
Absorbs the nutrients
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

40. What happens in the anaphase?
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Cell starts to split
Absorbs the nutrients

41. What is a recessive gene?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Powerhouses of the cell
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

42. Fungi

43. cerebellum
Only mammals that lay eggs
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

44. What is a genotype?

45. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
The cell duplicates
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

46. What makes up the nervous system?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

47. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
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
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

48. What happens during respiration?
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
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Sexually
Absorbs the nutrients

49. cerebrum

50. What are the ribosomes?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
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
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
RNA translate creating proteins