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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the cell wall?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Bone marrow
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

2. Large intestines
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
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
Sexual and asexual
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

3. What is mitrochondria?
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
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
Powerhouses of the cell
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing

4. 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
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
It's green and holds chlorophil
Oldest organism; asexual

5. What is mitosis?

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6. What is natural selection?
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
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
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell

7. How do mammals reproduce?
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
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
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Sexually

8. What are the stages of cell division?
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Oldest organism; asexual

9. Fungi

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10. Primary consumer
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
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Fight disease

11. What is parasitism?

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12. What is adaptation?
How we adapt to our environment
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
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration

13. What is commensalism?
How we adapt to our environment
The cell duplicates
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
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. Advantages to asexual reproduction

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15. What is osmosis?
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
Number of organelles
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
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

16. Salivary glands
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

17. What is cytoplasm?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Everything in the membrane
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow

18. What happens in the anaphase?
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Cell starts to split
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Vacuole - chloroplast - cell wall

19. Ferns
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
Sexual and asexual

20. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
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
An organism's combination of genes for a trait
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

21. What are the 5 steps in Photosynthesis?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
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

22. What are the different types of reproduction in plants?
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Sexual and asexual
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

23. What is a phenotype?
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
A testable explanation of a question or problem

24. What is a dominant gene?
Number of organelles
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
The gene that shows up

25. What is a symbolic relationship between organisms?
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
Organisms live in close interaction with one another
It's green and holds chlorophil
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual

26. During photosynthesis what do plants do?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
A testable explanation of a question or problem
The cell duplicates
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

27. Producer
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

28. What is predation?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
RNA translate creating proteins
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

29. What is the digestive system responsible for?
Oldest organism; asexual
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
Breaking down and absorbing food
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell

30. Finches
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
It's green and holds chlorophil
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

31. What happens in prophase?
The gene that shows up
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
Breaking down and absorbing food
The cell duplicates

32. What makes up the nervous system?
Fight disease
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

33. Gregor Mendel
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes

34. Krebb Cycle
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Bone marrow
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

35. What are the three parts of the brain?
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
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
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 blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

36. Rectum
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
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)
Powerhouses of the cell
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored

37. What is heredity?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
How we react
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

38. What is a recessive gene?
RNA translate creating proteins
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene

39. What is the cell membrane?
Cell starts to split
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
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure

40. Photosynthesis
Eats the producer ex. rabbit
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing

41. What is response to stimuli?
It's green and holds chlorophil
How we react
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
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food

42. What happens in metaphase?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
How we react

43. What are the ribosomes?
It's green and holds chlorophil
RNA translate creating proteins
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
A non symbiotic relationship in which a predator hunts prey

44. brain stem
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Breaking down and absorbing food
Bone marrow
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

45. Tertiary consumer
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
Fight disease
Brain - spinal cord - and other nerves
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk

46. 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
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
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

47. What are the most important organelles in an animals cell?
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Asexual and sexual
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
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

48. What happens in the telephase?
Absorbs the nutrients
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
Fight disease

49. What supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
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
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
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
A model used to represent crosses between organisms

50. What is a hypothesis?
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
A model used to represent crosses between organisms
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
A testable explanation of a question or problem