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CSET Multiple Subject: Life Science

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1. brain stem
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
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
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
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

2. What are the ribosomes?
Absorbs the nutrients
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
Cell starts to split
RNA translate creating proteins

3. Where are red and white bloods formed?
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
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
Bone marrow
Both members benefit (mutual benefit)

4. What is the circulatory system responsible for?
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
Different shapes and sizes of their beaks; eating insects vs eating seeds
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer

5. Esophages
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Mucus lining

6. Small intestines
Not photo doesn't need light; asexual
Fight disease
Absorbs the nutrients
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase

7. What is the digestive system responsible for?
Breaking down and absorbing food
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
A blood vessel that carries blood to the heart

8. What determines the types of organisms an ecosystem can support?
Large storage container fluid
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
How we react

9. What is response to stimuli?
A habitat that provides food - water and a method of maintaining homeostasis and reproducing
How we react
Way of using energy
A testable explanation of a question or problem

10. What are arteries?
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart

11. What is adaptation?
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
How we adapt to our environment

12. What is chlorophyll? and where is it stored?

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13. What is mitrochondria?
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 cell duplicates
RNA translate creating proteins
Powerhouses of the cell

14. System of classification?
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
Powerhouses of the cell
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species

15. 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
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Only mammals that lay eggs
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

16. How do mammals reproduce?
Body temperature (internal or external)
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
Sexually
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

17. What is metabolism?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Way of using energy

18. What is the cell membrane?
Mucus lining
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Selectively permeable - lets things in and out

19. What is the cell wall?
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
How we react
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce

20. What are the stages of cell division?
A blood vessel that takes carries blood away from the heart
Sexual and asexual
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase

21. What are the two ways of reproduction?
Asexual and sexual
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

22. What happens in the anaphase?
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
Cell starts to split
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

23. What happens in the telephase?
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Lies beneath the cerebrum and controls balance; helps muscles work together
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 explanation that has undergone many tests; many different kinds of evidence dupport a scientific theory; no evidence can contradict - or disagree with - the explanation

24. Algae
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 cell duplicates
Nucleus - mitrochondria - ribosomes - cytoplasm - cell membrane
Oldest organism; asexual

25. What is a genotype?

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26. What is the chloroplast?

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27. What is homeostasis?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; this is where the genetic code of an organism is stored
Body temperature (internal or external)
Process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
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

28. Salivary glands
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
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
beginning stage of digestion - coats the food
How we adapt to our environment

29. Disadvantage to asexual reproduction
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
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
Can reproduce alone; dosen't have to find a mate - they can reproduce quickly
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring

30. What happens in metaphase?
Genetic material lines up spindile starts to grow
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
Fight disease
They use the chemical chlorophyl to absorb solar energy - then store this energy using a chemical reaction that creates carbohydrates

31. What is a dominant gene?
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
The dividing of a cell's nucleus. The process that results in two cells identical to the parent 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
The gene that shows up

32. What is a phenotype?
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
Eats the primary producer ex. snake
What an organism looks like as a result of its genes

33. Decomposer
breaks down dead organisms ex. fungi - bacteria - creates fertilizer for the producer
Sexual; cone barring seed that's fertilized
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

34. What do white blood cells do?
Fight disease
The cell duplicates
Outside the cell membrane and hold structure
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction

35. Advantages to asexual reproduction

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36. What are the three parts of the brain?
Only mammals that lay eggs
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem
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
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees

37. What are the factors affecting plant growth?
Body temperature (internal or external)
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
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
Everything in the membrane

38. Primary consumer
Absorbs the nutrients
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint
The process that results in sex cells. Each sex cell contains one - half the number of chromosomes in the parent cell
Eats the producer ex. rabbit

39. What are animal cells comprised of?
Transport hemoglobin - oxygen - food supply
Number of organelles
Water; the most important factor in determining the distribution of plant life
The gene that shows up

40. What are the 7 major characteristics of life?
Homoestasis - organization - metabolism - growth - adaptation - response to stimuli - reproduction
Chemical plants use to absorb solar energy - it's stored in chloroplasts
Pumping blood to all the tissues of the body
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach

41. Rectum
Long tube that connects the mouth and the stomach
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
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
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

42. Angiosperms
Absorbs the nutrients
A testable explanation of a question or problem
Passing of traits from parents to their offspring
Flowering plants; sexual (female pistol and male stamen)

43. Producer
Way of using energy
Absorbs the nutrients
gets energy directly from the sun ex. green plants - grass - trees
Cerebrum - cerebellum - brain stem

44. Advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
RNA translate creating proteins
Advantage - greater diversity among offspring Disadvantage - must find a mate to be able to reproduce
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
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

45. What happens in prophase?
Eats secondary consumer ex. hawk
The cell duplicates
Lower part of the large intestines where feces is stored
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

46. What is a recessive gene?
A gene that is hidden by a dominant gene
Absorbs the nutrients
King Philip came over for good soup - Kingdom - Phylum - class - order - family - genus - species
Brain of the cell - DNA blueprint

47. What is natural selection?
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
Body temperature (internal or external)
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
removes water from undigested material - returning the water to the body

48. Stomach
The gene that shows up
Mucus lining
Cutting action complete now - 2 cells are created
Prophase - metaphase - anaphase - and telephase

49. What is descent with modification?
Only mammals that lay eggs
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
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
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

50. Gregor Mendel
While cross breeding with pea plants - discovered that traits in organisms are due to paired factors; now called genes
In plants - the process of storing energy through photosynthesis and later releasing it through respiration
A sex cell - such as sperm or egg
How we react