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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. Producer
Asexual and sexual
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
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
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

2. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Only mammals that lay eggs
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
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

3. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
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
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

4. What do white blood cells do?
Absorbs the nutrients
Breaking down and absorbing food
Fight disease
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

5. What are the two ways of reproduction?
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Asexual and sexual
Breaking down and absorbing 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

6. What is adaptation?
A testable explanation of a question or problem
The gene that shows up
How we adapt to our environment
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

7. What is parasitism?

8. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
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
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

9. What is commensalism?
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
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

10. Small intestines
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
It's green and holds chlorophil
Absorbs the nutrients
Powerhouses of the cell

11. What happens in metaphase?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
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

12. brain stem
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
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
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg

13. What is mutualism?
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
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Large storage container fluid

14. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Way of using energy
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

15. DNA
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Asexual and sexual
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
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored

16. What is a scientific theory?
Absorbs the nutrients
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
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

17. Tertiary consumer
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

18. Life cycle of a frog

19. Where are red and white bloods formed?
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
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
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Bone marrow

20. What is a hypothesis?
The gene that shows up
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem

21. What is meiosis?
Powerhouses of the cell
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
A testable explanation of a question or problem
RNA translate creating proteins

22. What is predation?
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

23. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
RNA translate creating proteins
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

24. What happens in the telephase?
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Bone marrow
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
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

25. What are the three parts of the brain?
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
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 non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

26. What is cytoplasm?
It's green and holds chlorophil
Everything in the membrane
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Body temperature (internal or external)

27. cerebellum
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Body temperature (internal or external)
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

28. What is response to stimuli?
How we react
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane

29. What do red blood cells do?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
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
Number of organelles

30. Stomach
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
Powerhouses of the cell
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

31. What is the vacuole?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
The cell duplicates
Large storage container fluid
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

32. Decomposer
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

33. What is the nucleus?
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
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
Mucus lining
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

34. Salivary glands
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Oldest organism; asexual
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

35. What is mitosis?

36. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Sexual and asexual
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

37. What is metabolism?
Sexually
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Way of using energy
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing

38. cerebrum

39. What is descent with modification?
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
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
Everything in the membrane
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

40. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
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
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
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

41. What is gamete?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Sexually
A testable explanation of a question or problem

42. What are veins?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

43. What happens during respiration?
It's green and holds chlorophil
How we react
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
Everything in the membrane

44. Esophages
Asexual and sexual
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual

45. What is the cell membrane?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
The gene that shows up

46. Fungi

47. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
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
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

48. Angiosperms
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
How we adapt to our environment
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

49. What are the stages of cell division?
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
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
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
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

50. What is a dominant gene?
How we adapt to our environment
The gene that shows up
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
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