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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Decomposer
Mucus lining
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
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

2. What is parasitism?

3. What are animal cells comprised of?
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
Number of organelles
Mucus lining
It's green and holds chlorophil

4. What is response to stimuli?
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
How we react

5. What is a punnett square?
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Absorbs the nutrients
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

6. What is a recessive gene?
It's green and holds chlorophil
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

7. Mammals
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
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
Everything in the membrane
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

8. What is the vacuole?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Way of using energy
Asexual and sexual
Large storage container fluid

9. What are the stages of cell division?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
RNA translate creating proteins
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

10. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Bone marrow
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

11. Large intestines
Sexual and asexual
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Breaking down and absorbing food
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

12. What is gamete?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Cell starts to split

13. Where are red and white bloods formed?
It's green and holds chlorophil
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
Bone marrow

14. How do mammals reproduce?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Everything in the membrane
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
Sexually

15. What do organisms need?
Sexual and asexual
Body temperature (internal or external)
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

16. 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
Bone marrow
Absorbs the nutrients
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

17. Ferns
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 producer ex. rabbit
Sexual and asexual
Everything in the membrane

18. Gregor Mendel
Everything in the membrane
Cell starts to split
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
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

19. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
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
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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
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

20. Producer
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Way of using energy
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase

21. Fungi

22. Esophages
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Only mammals that lay eggs
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

23. Advantages to asexual reproduction

24. What is the nucleus?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Sexually
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

25. Salivary glands
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
The cell duplicates
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

26. Angiosperms
Sexually
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

27. Rectum
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
How we react
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

28. What is a hypothesis?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created

29. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
RNA translate creating proteins
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

30. What is a dominant gene?
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
The gene that shows up
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

31. Life cycle of a frog

32. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
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
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
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

33. What are the ribosomes?
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
RNA translate creating proteins
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make 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

34. What is predation?
Body temperature (internal or external)
The gene that shows up
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
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

35. System of classification?
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
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
Powerhouses of the cell

36. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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

37. What is a phenotype?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Sexual and asexual
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

38. What is the digestive system responsible for?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
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
Breaking down and absorbing food

39. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

40. cerebrum

41. What happens in metaphase?
Body temperature (internal or external)
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

42. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Sexual and 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
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual

43. Stomach
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
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Mucus lining
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

44. What is metabolism?
Mucus lining
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Way of using energy
How we react

45. What is commensalism?
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
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
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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

46. Krebb Cycle
The cell duplicates
The gene that shows up
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

47. What is a genotype?

48. What is osmosis?
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
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 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

49. Small intestines
How we react
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Absorbs the nutrients
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

50. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
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
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
How we react