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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What are veins?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
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
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

2. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
How we react
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

3. What is response to stimuli?
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
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
How we react
Bone marrow

4. During photosynthesis what do plants do?
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
The cell duplicates
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell

5. What makes up the nervous system?
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
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

6. What is mitosis?

7. What are animal cells comprised of?
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
The cell duplicates
Number of organelles
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts

8. What happens in prophase?
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 cell duplicates
Mucus lining
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

9. What is predation?
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

10. What are the two ways of reproduction?
Asexual and sexual
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
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; cone barring seed that's fertilized

11. What is osmosis?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Bone marrow
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
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

12. What are the ribosomes?
RNA translate creating proteins
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
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

13. Primary consumer
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
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

14. What is cytoplasm?
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Large storage container fluid
Asexual and sexual
Everything in the membrane

15. Life cycle of a frog

16. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
Only mammals that lay eggs
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
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

17. Tertiary consumer
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
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
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk

18. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
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
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
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

19. cerebrum

20. How does blood circulate?
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
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
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
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

21. What are the stages of cell division?
Oldest organism; asexual
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Absorbs the nutrients
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

22. What is the digestive system responsible for?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
Powerhouses of the cell
Asexual and sexual
Breaking down and absorbing food

23. brain stem
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
Everything in the membrane
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

24. Krebb Cycle
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Sexually
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

25. What is parasitism?

26. What is a hypothesis?
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Asexual and sexual
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Powerhouses of the cell

27. Small intestines
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Absorbs the nutrients
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

28. Gregor Mendel
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

29. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
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
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
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

30. What is the cell wall?
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
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

31. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
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
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

32. What is a phenotype?
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
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
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

33. Gymnosperms

34. Large intestines
Sexually
A testable explanation of a question or problem
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Way of using energy

35. Producer
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
The gene that shows up
Breaking down and absorbing food
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

36. What is the cell membrane?
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
The gene that shows up
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

37. What do red blood cells do?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
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

38. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
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
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

39. Stomach
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Mucus lining
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Cell starts to split

40. Algae
Only mammals that lay eggs
Oldest organism; asexual
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 process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

41. What is metabolism?
Way of using energy
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
It's green and holds chlorophil
Mucus lining

42. Life cycle of a butterfly
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - 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
Fight disease
The gene that shows up

43. System of classification?
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

44. Salivary glands
Only mammals that lay eggs
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Everything in the membrane

45. What is the nucleus?
Absorbs the nutrients
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

46. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Sexual and asexual
How we react
Body temperature (internal or external)

47. What do organisms need?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
How we react
Asexual and sexual
RNA translate creating proteins

48. What is descent with modification?
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Absorbs the nutrients
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

49. Advantages to asexual reproduction

50. What is mitrochondria?
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
Powerhouses of the cell
Large storage container fluid
Sexually