CBRC Notes Flashcards
This is the hormone that is responsible for having contractions
Oxytocin
It is the distance that light travels in a year, about 9.5 trillion kilometers
light-year
It is any quantity in physics that has magnitude but not a direction associated with it (distance, speed, mass, temperature)
Scalar quantity
It is an alternative form of a gene
Allele
It is any formation in which groundwater rises on its own under pressure
Artesian well
It is the apparent brightness of a star if it were viewed from a distance of 32.6 light-years
Absolute magnitude
It is a group of organisms with same species that can interbreed in natural setting
Population
It is a gas that is composed of free-floating ions (atoms stripped of some electrons)
plasma
It is a major climatologic regions with consistent inhabiting populations
Biome
Examples of plasma
lightning, solar wind, aurora borealis, fluorescent light, luminous clouds
It is the place where plants propagate and grow
Plant nurseries
An atom consists of a _________, located in the center of the atom that contains protons and neutrons and represents most of the mass of an atom.
Nucleus
It is a massive star that has collapsed to such a small volume that its gravity prevents the escape of everything including light.
Black hole
It is a change in state from SOLID to GAS without passing the liquid state
sublimation
It is the luminous phenomenon observed when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, popularly called a shooting star.
Meteor
It is the luminous phenomenon observed when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, popularly called a shooting star.
Meteor
It is any proportion of a meteoroid that reaches Earth’s surface
Meteorite
It is a small, solid particle that travels through space.
Meteoroid
It is a change in state from GAS to SOLID
Deposition
It is a change in state from GAS to LIQUID
Condensation (Ex. Moisture)
It is a change in state from LIQUID to GAS
Evaporation
It is a change in state from SOLID to LIQUID
Melting
It is a change in state from LIQUID to SOLID
Freezing
These are plants with vascular tissues with seeds inside or outside the fruit. It is also known as fruit-bearing plants or flowering plants
Angiosperms
It requires no fertilization causing no variation because there is no crossing-over chromosomes. This happens only from a single parent and producing an offspring of exact copy
Asexual reproduction
It is the study of celestial bodies such a stars, comets, planets, and galaxies and phenomena that originate outside the earth’s atmosphere
Astronomy
It means the average annual precipitation over Earth equals the amount of water that evaporates.
balance/hydrologic cycle
It is the small unit of mass
It is the small unit of mass
atomic mass unit (amu)
It state that as the velocity of fluid increases, the pressure exerted by the fluid decreases
Bernoulli’s Principle
It consists of particles called bosons which exists at the temperature of 0 k or -273 °C with most minimum amount of energy a particle can posses.
Bose-Einstein Condensate
It is the part of the brain that controls the following activities: breathing, blood pressure, heart rate, alertness
brain stem
What are the three statement of cell theory?
- All living organisms are made up of cell
- Cell is the basic functional unit of life
- cells came from pre-existing cells
It refers to the disorder which muscular control and coordination are impaired due to brain damage
Cerebral palsy
it is a severe damage to some parts of the brain due to lack of blood supply.
Cerebrovascular accident
Properties that are only observable when the substance reacts with another substance thereby causing a change in the chemical composition of the substance
Chemical properties
It is the science that describes matter- its properties, the changes it undergoes, and the energy changes that accompany those processes.
Chemistry
It is a thread of DNA, made up of genes
Chromosomes
considered as the “lifeline” of the body. It is the body’s “pickup and delivery system.”
Circulatory system
It is the tendency of mineral to cleave or break along flat, even surfaces
cleavage
Fundamental units of the genetic code (DNA)
A, G, C, T- Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine
Fundamental units of genetic code (RNA)
A, G, C, U- Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil
It is the relationship between an organism and a host where neither is benefited nor harmed.
commensalism
The speed of the sound is usually lowest in ___________ and highest in ___________.
gases, solids
It is the study of the nature of the universe, its origin and overall structure.
Cosmology
These are pyrimidine nitrogenous bases
Cytosine and Uracil
These are purine nitrogenous bases
Guanine and Adenine
It is a process in which a substance is broken to make it useful in other processes.
Decomposition
The organisms that are capable of decomposing a substance
Saprophytes
He proposed that matter was composed of tiny indivisible particles
Democritus
It is the factor that may change as a result of changes made in independent variable
Dependent Variable
it is the driest ecosystem; has very low amount of precipitation may have very high or very low temparature.
Desert
It is the conversion of semi-arid areas to absolute desert (arid means dry)
Desertification
They are all made from the same set of biomolecules composed of monomeric units (Macromolecules)
Carbohydrates (direct energy), Proteins(lipids and fats), Nucleic Acids(RNA and DNA)
It involves the spontaneous and random movements (Brownian Movement) of molecules from one place to another.
Diffusion
DNA means?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
RNA means?
Ribonucleic acid
it both composed of phosphate group, sugar group, and nitrogenous base
RNA & DNA
it is the relationship between the physical and biological environments in a certain plain.
Ecosystem
It is the world’s largest ecosystem
Antarctica
It is the abnormal implantation of embryo in any place of female reproductive organ except the uterus’ endometrium
Ectopic pregnancy
equal to work done against gravity
gravitational potential energy
These are areas where freshwater merge with the ocean
Estuaries
melting point, hardness, color, boiling point, odor, density, luster (shiny), magnetism, viscosity, ductility, state of mater
Physical properties
reactivity, toxicity, oxidation, PH, corrosion, flammability, radioactivity
Chemical properties
These are proteins that are organism must consume from another source because it cannot be synthesized itself by humans.
Essential amino acids
List of essential amino acids
histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine
These are proteins that bodies can produce even if we do not get it from the food we eat
Non-essential amino acid
List of non essential amino acids
alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, tyrosine
Are usually not essential, excepting times of illness and stress
Conditional amino acids
List of conditional amino acids
arginine, cysteine, glutamine, tyrosine, glycine, proline, serine
It consists of normal fermions (building blocks of normal matter) which are almost identical to bosons they cannot stick together
Fermionic Condensate
It is a cloud with its base at or very near the ground.
Fog
What causes world’s greatest mountain ranges?
Fold eruptions of rock formations
Food, plants, and other animal wastes should be segregated in waste disposal because?
These are biodegradable
Net charge for neutral atoms
zero
Forces acting on an object that are opposite in direction and equal in size
balanced forces
Fossil fuels are _________ that may be used as fuel, including coal, oil, and natural gas
Hydrocarbons
These are quantities that do not depend on any other quantity for their measurement (mass, length, time, current, amount of substance)
Fundamental quantities
it is a section of DNA, which codes for the formation of protein controlling a specific characteristic of the organism
Gene
It is considered as autotrophs
Green plants
They can build simple inorganic substances into organic compounds
Green plants
it is made up of Keratin
hair and fingernails
He coined the term “survival of the fittest”
Herbert Spencer
These organisms obtain their energy by eating plants or animals that have eaten plants (dogs, birds, fish, humans)
Herotrophic organisms
Humans have ___________________ where blood is enclosed only inside a body and passes through blood vessels
closed circulatory system
It is the weather disturbance in western part of the Atlantic Ocean
Hurricane
Type of storm form in Indian Ocean
Cyclone
Type of storm form in Pacific Ocean
Typhoon
__________ will be the carriers if a color blind man marries a woman who has normal vision and no history of the disease
Daugthers
If the flower has either stamen or pistil, it is called ____________
Imperfect flower
If the flower has stamen only, it is called _________
staminate flower
__________ (travel into) and _________ (birth) contribute to an increase in human population
Immigration, Natality
it happens when the diaphgram contacts and goes down as the ribcage goes upward and outward
Inhalation
it is the factor that is intentionally manipulated or changed in an experiment
independent variable
It is the transmission of genetic formation from one generation to next, leading to continuity of the species and variation within it.
Inheritance
How many legs do insects have?
6 legs
