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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What is meiosis?
The cell duplicates
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

2. Fungi

3. What do white blood cells do?
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
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
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
Fight disease

4. During photosynthesis what do plants do?
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Fight disease
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

5. What is mitosis?

6. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Powerhouses of the cell
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 sex cell - such as sperm or egg

7. 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
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Way of using energy

8. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
Only mammals that lay eggs
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
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Fight disease

9. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Cell starts to split
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Asexual and sexual

10. 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
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Asexual and sexual

11. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
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
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

12. What happens in prophase?
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Sexual and asexual
The cell duplicates
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

13. What is the digestive system responsible for?
The cell duplicates
Breaking down and absorbing food
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Body temperature (internal or external)

14. How does blood circulate?
Everything in the membrane
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
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
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

15. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Oldest organism; asexual
How we adapt to our environment
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

16. DNA
Cell starts to split
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly

17. What is parasitism?

18. What is adaptation?
How we adapt to our environment
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
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 process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

19. Producer
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
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

20. What happens during respiration?
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
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
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
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

21. What is a dominant gene?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
The gene that shows up
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

22. What is gamete?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Body temperature (internal or external)
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
How we react

23. What are animal cells comprised of?
Sexually
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
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
Number of organelles

24. What is a hypothesis?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
A testable explanation of a question or problem

25. Ferns
How we react
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Sexual and asexual
How we adapt to our environment

26. What is a phenotype?
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
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Way of using energy
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

27. What makes up the nervous system?
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
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
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
The gene that shows up

28. What makes up a plant cell that's diffenerent than an animal cell?
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 blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

29. System of classification?
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
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
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
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

30. What happens in the anaphase?
Cell starts to split
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
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
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

31. Rectum
Breaking down and absorbing food
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

32. Angiosperms
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
It's green and holds chlorophil
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction

33. brain stem
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
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 the producer ex. rabbit

34. Secondary consumer
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
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
Body temperature (internal or external)
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

35. What is predation?
Sexual and asexual
Body temperature (internal or external)
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
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

36. What is mitrochondria?
Only mammals that lay eggs
Powerhouses of the cell
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
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

37. What do organisms need?
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
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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

38. Primary consumer
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

39. What is a recessive gene?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg

40. What happens in the telephase?
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts

41. Gregor Mendel
The cell duplicates
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Body temperature (internal or external)

42. What are arteries?
Large storage container fluid
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
Fight disease
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

43. What is a scientific theory?
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
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
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

44. Mammals
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
Sexual and asexual
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
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

45. How do mammals reproduce?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
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
Sexually
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

46. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
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
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

47. cerebellum
Sexually
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

48. Tertiary consumer
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 secondary consumer ex. hawk
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Asexual and sexual

49. Finches
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
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

50. Where are red and white bloods formed?
Bone marrow
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes