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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. Gymnosperms

2. What happens in the anaphase?
Cell starts to split
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

3. cerebellum
Bone marrow
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
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

4. Fungi

5. cerebrum

6. What is the chloroplast?

7. Producer
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

8. Photosynthesis
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
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Number of organelles

9. Decomposer
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

10. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
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
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds

11. Rectum
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

12. Secondary consumer
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
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
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

13. What is homeostasis?
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Breaking down and absorbing food
Number of organelles
Body temperature (internal or external)

14. Ferns
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Sexual and asexual
Everything in the membrane
Organisms live in close interaction with one another

15. What are animal cells comprised of?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
It's green and holds chlorophil
Number of organelles
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

16. What do organisms need?
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

17. Small intestines
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
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
Absorbs the nutrients
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

18. Mammals
How we adapt to our environment
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
Powerhouses of the cell

19. What happens in prophase?
The cell duplicates
Fight disease
How we adapt to our environment
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

20. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
Body temperature (internal or external)
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
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
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

21. What is the cell membrane?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
The gene that shows up
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

22. How does blood circulate?
It's green and holds chlorophil
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
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
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

23. What is adaptation?
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
How we adapt to our environment
How we react

24. What is a punnett square?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Only mammals that lay eggs

25. What are the two ways of reproduction?
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
Asexual and sexual
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
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

26. Krebb Cycle
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Sexually
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

27. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual 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
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

28. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
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
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction

29. Tertiary consumer
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Sexual and asexual
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
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

30. 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
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
RNA translate creating proteins
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

31. What happens in the telephase?
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Breaking down and absorbing food
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

32. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
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
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
Oldest organism; asexual

33. What is the nucleus?
Large storage container fluid
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Breaking down and absorbing food
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem

34. What is a genotype?

35. Duck - billed platypus and the spiny anteater
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell
Only mammals that lay eggs
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

36. Salivary glands
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Powerhouses of the cell
Body temperature (internal or external)

37. Finches
It's green and holds chlorophil
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Oldest organism; asexual

38. Stomach
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
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Mucus lining

39. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
Absorbs the nutrients
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
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
How we react

40. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Sexually
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - 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
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

41. What is a phenotype?
Body temperature (internal or external)
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

42. What is response to stimuli?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
How we react
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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

43. What are the stages of cell division?
Fight disease
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
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

44. System of classification?
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
It's green and holds chlorophil
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

45. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
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
Only mammals that lay eggs
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
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase

46. What is a dominant gene?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
The gene that shows up
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

47. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
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
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
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

48. Primary consumer
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Sexual and asexual

49. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Sexual and asexual
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Everything in the membrane

50. What is parasitism?