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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. How does blood circulate?
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism 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

2. Producer
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

3. What happens in the anaphase?
Cell starts to split
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem

4. What is natural selection?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
It's green and holds chlorophil
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
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

5. Stomach
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Mucus lining
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
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

6. Small intestines
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Absorbs the nutrients
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
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

7. What happens during respiration?
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

8. Gregor Mendel
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

9. Large intestines
Mucus lining
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

10. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
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
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Sexual and asexual

11. What is cytoplasm?
Everything in the membrane
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
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

12. What is the cell wall?
Bone marrow
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

13. What are the two ways of reproduction?
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Asexual and sexual

14. Mammals
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
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

15. cerebrum

16. Life cycle of a butterfly
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Large storage container fluid

17. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

18. Secondary consumer
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Sexual and asexual

19. Salivary glands
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
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
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

20. Fungi

21. Photosynthesis
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
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
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

22. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
The cell duplicates
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
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

23. What is parasitism?

24. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
How we react

25. What is predation?
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
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
The gene that shows up
Powerhouses of the cell

26. During photosynthesis what do plants do?
Sexual and asexual
Fight disease
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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

27. What are arteries?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

28. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
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; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Mucus lining

29. What is the chloroplast?

30. What is mitosis?

31. What makes up the nervous system?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
A blood vessel that carries blood to 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

32. What is adaptation?
Breaking down and absorbing food
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
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
How we adapt to our environment

33. What is meiosis?
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

34. Rectum
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
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Only mammals that lay eggs
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

35. What is gamete?
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
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

36. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Number of organelles
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 habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing

37. What is the vacuole?
Large storage container fluid
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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
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

38. What are the three parts of the brain?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

39. Decomposer
Mucus lining
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

40. What do white blood cells do?
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Fight disease
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

41. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
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
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
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
How we adapt to our environment

42. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
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
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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

43. What is metabolism?
Body temperature (internal or external)
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Way of using energy
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

44. What is mutualism?
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
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

45. Ferns
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Everything in the membrane
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Sexual and asexual

46. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Bone marrow
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Fight disease
Only mammals that lay eggs

47. What happens in metaphase?
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
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 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

48. What is a dominant gene?
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
The gene that shows up
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

49. Algae
Oldest organism; asexual
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
Asexual and sexual
Powerhouses of the cell

50. brain stem
Mucus lining
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
Cell starts to split
The cell duplicates