STUDY ISLAND MCAS REVIEW LIFE SCIENCE

Assignment #2 Body Systems & Reproduction

ORGANIZATION OF LIVING SYSTEMS

LIVING SYSTEMS
Body systems work together to carry out life processes and maintain homeostasis (constant conditions.)
Can You
Name some organs of the digestive, respiratory and circulatory system?

Can you

Identify the function of the integumentary system? Identify the function of the endocrine system?

Reproduction & Heredity

Asexual Reproduction
Organism produces an identical copy of itself. Example: Bacterial fission

Sexual Reproduction

Organism receives half of its genes from each parent.

Example: Fertilization of egg by sperm

HeredityPunnett Squares
B=brown

b=blue

Two brown eyed parents are heterozygous (Bb) for eye color. Can they have offspring with blue eyes? Use the Punnett Square to predict the eye color of offspring. ______% BB ______% brown eyes ______% Bb ______% blue eyes ______% bb

HeredityPunnett Squares
B=brown eyes

b=blue eyes

Can two brown eyed parents have offspring with blue eyes? YES!!! 25 % BB 50 % Bb 25 % bb 75 % brown eyes 25 % blue eyes

This lesson will help you to review material that you learned in Grade 7 Life Science and prepare you for this weeks Study Island lesson. Your Grade 7 teachers send best wishes and know you will be successful on Grade 8 Science MCAS. YOU CAN DO IT!!