🧬 Life Science: Biology

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“Your body stays at about 98.6°F whether it's hot or cold outside. That balance is homeostasis.”

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• This is an animal cell. Each organelle inside has a job, like workers in a city.
• The nucleus keeps the DNA: the instructions for building the cell's proteins.
• Mitochondria release energy from food and store it as ATP.
• The cell membrane controls what enters and leaves the cell.
• Plant cells add a stiff cell wall, chloroplasts for photosynthesis, and a big central vacuole.

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“When you sprint, your lungs, heart and muscles all speed up together.”

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• Your body's organ systems each do a job: nervous, respiratory, circulatory, muscular and more.
• When you sprint, your muscles need more oxygen, so your heart beats faster and you breathe faster.
• The lungs take in oxygen, the heart pumps blood, and the blood carries oxygen to the muscles. Systems work as a team.
• After a meal, blood sugar rises. The pancreas releases insulin, cells take in sugar, and the level comes back down.
• When blood sugar drops, the pancreas releases glucagon, and the liver releases stored sugar.

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“Bread, butter, eggs and DNA are all built from carbon-based molecules.”

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• Four kinds of big molecules build living things. Each is made from small building blocks.
• Simple sugars like glucose link into long chains: starch and cellulose are carbohydrates.
• Amino acids link into a chain, and the chain folds into a protein. The order decides the shape.
• An enzyme is a protein that speeds up a reaction. The substrate fits its active site.
• A molecule with the wrong shape does not fit, so this enzyme cannot act on it.

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“Plants capture sunlight; every cell releases energy from sugar. They're opposite reactions.”

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• Photosynthesis happens in chloroplasts: light energy, carbon dioxide and water make glucose and oxygen.
• Cellular respiration happens in mitochondria: glucose and oxygen make carbon dioxide, water and ATP energy.
• The products of photosynthesis are the reactants of respiration, and the other way around.
• 6 CO2 plus 6 H2O makes C6H12O6 plus 6 O2. Count the atoms: 6 carbon, 12 hydrogen and 18 oxygen on each side.

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“A scraped knee heals because skin cells divide to replace the lost ones.”

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• Before dividing, the cell grows and copies all its DNA. This is interphase.
• Prophase: the chromosomes coil up. Each one is now two identical sister chromatids.
• Metaphase: spindle fibers line the chromosomes up in the middle.
• Anaphase: the sister chromatids are pulled apart to opposite ends.
• Telophase: two new nuclei form, and the cell pinches in two.

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“Only about 10% of energy passes up each level of a food chain.”

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• In a food web, arrows point from the food to the eater. They show which way energy flows.
• An energy pyramid: producers at the bottom hold the most energy.
• Only about 10 percent passes up to each next level. The rest is used for living or lost as heat.
• Carbon cycles: plants take carbon dioxide from the air, animals eat plants, and respiration puts it back.
• Burning fossil fuels releases carbon that was stored underground, adding carbon dioxide to the air.

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“Deer on Long Island with few predators can multiply until food runs short.”

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• With unlimited food, space and no predators, a population grows faster and faster: a J-shaped curve.
• Real resources are limited, so growth slows and levels off: an S-shaped curve.
• Limiting factors like food, water, space, predators and disease set the carrying capacity.
• If resources increase, the carrying capacity goes up.

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“Bread rises because yeast makes CO₂ without using oxygen.”

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• Cellular respiration with oxygen happens in the mitochondria.
• Aerobic respiration gives about 30 or more ATP per glucose. Without oxygen, cells get only 2.
• Without enough oxygen, muscle cells ferment glucose into lactic acid. Yeast make ethanol and carbon dioxide.
• Real life: the carbon dioxide from yeast makes bread dough rise.

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“Years after a forest fire, grasses, then shrubs, then trees return.”

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• Primary succession starts on bare rock: lichens, then grasses, then shrubs, then a forest.
• After a fire, soil is left, so plants come back much faster. That is secondary succession.
• A stable ecosystem bounces back from small changes.
• A big change, like a flood or a new invasive species, can reshape the whole ecosystem.

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“Fish swim in schools and wolves hunt in packs. Groups can help them survive.”

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• A fish swimming alone is an easy target for a predator.
• In a school, many fish move together. The predator has trouble picking one out.
• In a bigger group, each one's chance of being the one caught is smaller: safety in numbers.
• Group behavior also helps hunters: a wolf pack can catch prey too big for one wolf.

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“Invasive species, habitat loss and climate change reduce biodiversity. Solutions can help.”

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• A field with only one species: when a disease hits, the whole field dies.
• A field with many species: the disease kills one kind, and the rest survive.
• HIPPO names five threats to biodiversity: habitat loss, invasive species, pollution, population growth and overharvesting.
• Losing species makes an ecosystem less able to recover from big changes.

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“DNA is a recipe book; proteins are the dishes.”

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• The big idea: DNA to RNA to protein.
• DNA is a double helix, a twisted ladder.
• The rungs are base pairs: A pairs with T, and C pairs with G.
• To use a gene, the cell unzips the DNA at that gene.
• Transcription: RNA copies the gene. In RNA, U takes the place of T.

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“Siblings with the same parents still look different. Meiosis shuffles the genes.”

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• Meiosis makes sex cells. First, matching chromosomes from each parent pair up.
• Crossing over: partner chromosomes trade pieces, making new combinations.
• Meiosis I: the partners separate into two cells, each with half the number.
• Meiosis II: the copies separate. Four sex cells, each one different.
• At fertilization, egg and sperm join. In humans, 23 plus 23 makes 46 again.

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“Two brown-eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child. Punnett squares predict chances.”

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• Pea flowers: purple P is dominant, white p is recessive. Both parents are Pp.
• Each parent passes on only one allele. Put one parent's alleles on top, the other's on the side.
• Fill each box with one allele from the top and one from the side.
• PP, Pp, Pp, pp: three purple to one white. The genotype ratio is 1 to 2 to 1.

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“A human arm, a whale flipper and a bat wing have the same set of bones.”

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• A human arm, a bat wing and a whale flipper have the same bones, shown in the same colors. These are homologous structures.
• In rock layers, deeper is older. Fossils show life changing over time.
• A branching tree shows common ancestors where lines meet.
• The more DNA two species share, the more recently they had a common ancestor.

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“Bacteria that survive an antibiotic reproduce, so the population becomes resistant.”

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• Variation: these beetles differ in color, and color is inherited.
• Selection: birds catch the beetles they can see. Green beetles stand out on brown ground.
• Brown beetles survive and reproduce more, so each generation has more brown beetles.
• If the ground turns green, green beetles are favored instead. Selection depends on the environment.

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“In 1800s England, soot darkened tree bark, and dark peppered moths became more common.”

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• A population has variation: different versions of a trait.
• A helpful trait means more survivors and more offspring, so the trait becomes more common each generation.
• When conditions change, the helpful trait can change too.
• Bacteria show it fast: an antibiotic removes the ones that cannot resist it.
• The resistant trait becomes common. That is adaptation by natural selection.

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“Galápagos finches on different islands evolved different beak shapes.”

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• One population can mix and interbreed freely.
• A river or mountain splits the population. Now the groups cannot mix.
• Over many generations, different mutations and different selection make the groups different.
• If they can no longer interbreed, even when together, they are two separate species.
• If the environment changes faster than a species can adapt, it can go extinct.

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