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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. What is predation?
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Sexual and asexual
Mucus lining
Oldest organism; asexual

2. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Sexual and asexual
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
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

3. What happens during respiration?
Cell starts to split
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
Sexual and asexual
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

4. Angiosperms
RNA translate creating proteins
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
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

5. What happens in metaphase?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

6. 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
Mucus lining
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Absorbs the nutrients

7. What is a hypothesis?
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
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

8. What are the ribosomes?
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
RNA translate creating proteins
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

9. Finches
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
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
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
How we adapt to our environment

10. What are animal cells comprised of?
Number of organelles
The cell duplicates
A testable explanation of a question or problem
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

11. System of classification?
Way of using energy
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
Bone marrow
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

12. Secondary consumer
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Large storage container fluid
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
RNA translate creating proteins

13. What are the two ways of reproduction?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Asexual and sexual
Oldest organism; asexual
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

14. What is homeostasis?
Sexual and asexual
Body temperature (internal or external)
How we react
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

15. What are the stages of cell division?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
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

16. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
Way of using energy
Only mammals that lay eggs
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane

17. Photosynthesis
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
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
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

18. What is mitrochondria?
Powerhouses of the cell
Large storage container fluid
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves

19. What is mutualism?
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Bone marrow
Only mammals that lay eggs
Asexual and sexual

20. Decomposer
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Mucus lining

21. What is heredity?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
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
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

22. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
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 habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
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

23. Large intestines
Body temperature (internal or external)
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Fight disease
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase

24. How do mammals reproduce?
Asexual and sexual
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Sexually
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored

25. What are veins?
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart
Asexual and sexual
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized

26. Gymnosperms

27. 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
Sexual and asexual
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

28. Small 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
Absorbs the nutrients
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
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply

29. What is adaptation?
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
How we adapt to our environment
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
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

30. What is a dominant gene?
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
The gene that shows up
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

31. Gregor Mendel
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
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
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life

32. Darwin's theory of natural selection summarized
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
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
Oldest organism; asexual

33. What is the cell membrane?
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Eats the primary producer ex. snake

34. Rectum
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Sexually
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Cell starts to split

35. Algae
Sexual and asexual
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Oldest organism; asexual
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

36. cerebellum
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created

37. What makes up the nervous system?
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual

38. What is the chloroplast?

39. Esophages
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
RNA translate creating proteins
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
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

40. What is the vacuole?
Large storage container fluid
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body
Powerhouses of the cell
Absorbs the nutrients

41. cerebrum

42. Mammals
Bone marrow
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
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. How does blood circulate?
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body

44. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
Sexual and asexual

45. Life cycle of a butterfly
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
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
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
Sexual and asexual

46. What do red blood cells do?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
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
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

47. What is meiosis?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent 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 non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

48. Krebb Cycle
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Sexually
Large storage container fluid
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

49. Tertiary consumer
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Mucus lining
Breaking down and absorbing food
Absorbs the nutrients

50. What is a genotype?