13.

According to level of the classification of living things, what next

lower/smaller grouping comprises a kingdom?
a. Phyla
b. Order
c. Species
d. Class
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 14. Under the Six-Kingdom system of the living world, how are multicellular
forms with specialized eukaryotic cells ability to locomate (sponges, worms,
1. Which of the following qualities is NOT true among considerations that insects, etc.) classified?
humans are the masters of other living organisms, as well as of the non-living a. Fungi
on earth? b. Plantae
a.Most developed species c. Animalia
b.Most dominant species d. Prostista
c.Most intelligent species 15. Whose works marked the beginning of modern taxonomy that developed a
d.Most reproductive species scheme of classification with hierarchical categories based on the physical and
2. Of the following, which is NOT among the uses of the Phylogenetic Tree that behavioural characteristics of organisms?
explains the genealogical history of groups of organisms? a. Charles Darwin
a. Visualize point at which species diverge b. Ernest Mayr
b. Provide chronology of evolutionary events c. Jean Baptise de Lamarck
c. Trace common ancestry d. Carolus Linnaeus
d. Estimate the age of living things 16. Among the following, which is considered Eukaryotic organisms which
3. In the hierarchy of biology taxonomy, if domain is at the top, which is at the possess a true nucleus in their cells?
bottom? a. Blue-green algae
a. Kingdom b. Bacteria
b. Species c. Archaens
c. Genus d. Animal and plants
d. Family 17. Under the Six-Kingdom system, how are multicellular forms with
4. The domains included in Wooeses 1990 classification are: specialized eukaryotic cells e.g. mosses and ferns but no ability for locomotion
I. Archaea classified?
II. Bacteria a. Protista
III. Chromista b. Animalia
IV. Eukarya c. Plantae
a. I, II, III d. Fungi
b. I, II, III, IV 18. The process of photosynthesis occurs not only in plants, but also in one of
c. II, III, IV the following:
d. I, II, IV a. Archaea
5. Which of the following is an example of a useful function for bacteria? b. Viruses
a. Can clean up an oil spill by digesting hydrocarbons in petroleum c. Green fungi
b. Can synthesize new form of heavy metals d. Algae
c. May cause a foul-smelling odor when it invades the outer dermal layer 19. Which organism is an example of a fungus?
d. May be pathogenic and cause human disease a. Algae
6. Which is the most basic process performed in the science of Taxonomy? b. Entamoeba
a. Naming organisms c. Euglenoids
b. Identifying organisms d. Yeast
c. Classifying organisms 20. Among the following animals in the class mammalian, which are
d. Understanding organisms categorized as Carnivora?
7. Which protist causes malaria? a. Elephants
a. Plasmodium b. Pigs
b. Staphylococcus c. Monkeys-
c. Euglena d. Cats
d. Kneallhazia 21. Among organisms which is capable of regeneration when cut into parts?
8. Under the Five Kingdom System recognized by most biologists today, where a. Yeast
do the true bacteria, the bacteria-like organisms, and the blue-green algae b. Molds
belong? c. Bacteria
a. Kingdom plantae d. Sea star
b. Kingdom monera 22. What is NOT an example of ways of asexual reproduction through cellular
c. Kingdom Protista division in plants?
d. Kingdom fungi a. Saprophytes generation
9. How does energy first enter our living Planet Earth? b. Formation of a bud
a. As energy manufactured through photosynthesis c. Germination of runners in grasses
b. As molecular energy from the biosphere d. Stem cuttings
c. As radiant energy from the sun 23. Among eukaryotes, in what cell organelle does the electron transport chain
d. As heat energy from outer space occur?
10. There are main foods rich in proteins that provide energy for man, but this a. Nucleus
is NOT an example of these foods: b. Mitochondria
a. Butter c. Vacuoles
b. Nuts d. Golgi apparatus
c. Fish 24. What type of asexual reproduction occurs when a new organism develops
d. Meat from an outgrowth as exemplified by corals?
11. There are main foods rich in carbohydrates that provide energy for man, but a. Fission
this is NOT an example of these foods: b. Sexual reproduction
a. Bread c. Budding
b. Meat d. Fertilization
c. Rice 25. An organism has a natural environment where it lives and thrives. This is
d. Cereals called its:
12. Among the following, which is considered Prokaryotic organisms which lack a. Habitat
a true nucleus in their cells? b. Country
a. Animals c. Migration pattern
b. Bacteria d. Culture medium
c. Fungi 26. Humans reproduce when an ovum is combined with a sperm leading to the
d. Protists development of an embryo. This form of reproduction is called
a. Asexual reproduction
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b. Fertilization c. Commensalism
c. Binary fission d. Mutualism
d. Budding 41. Which is the simplest atom that is made up of one proton and one
27. Which of the following animals does NOT need a hard-shell to protect its electron?
fertilized eggs? a. Carbon-6
a. Lizard b. Oxygen-8
b. Eagle c. Helium-2
c. Duck d. Hydrogen -1
d. Frog 42. What are the hormones responsible for plant growth, promoting axillary bud
28. True of noble gases: growth and apical dominance?
a. Classified as group 7 in the periodic table of elements a. Cytokinis and Gibberelins
b. Able to react with any other atoms b. Cytokinis and Auxins
c. Includes argon and hydrogen c. Auxins and Gibberelins
d. Includes neon and helium d. Auxins and Abscisate
29. In the human life cycle, what process maintains chromosome number once 43. Among the elements useful for the human body, which is the most
a spermatozoon unites with an ovum during fertilization? abundant mineral in the body that aids in the blood-clotting process?
a. Oogenesis- the production or development of an ovum. a. Iron
b. Mitosis b. Potassium.
c. Meosis c. Calcium
d. Spermatogenesis- the production or development of an sperm. d. Fluorine
30. What is the process in human sexual reproduction wherein the zygote 44. Animals that are only able to eat animal meat are called
undergoes a series of cell division needed for the growth and maturation of the a. Obligate carnivore
fetus? b. Omnivores
a. Mitosis c. Selective carnivores
b. Spermatogenesis d. Facultative carnivores
c. Oogenesis 45. True of junction proteins:
d. Meosis a. Enable to discriminate between ones own cell and cell from foreign
31. Which of the following is an isomer of glucose? organisms
a. Fructose b. Assist cell-to-cell adhesion and communication
b. Maltose c. Form an electrical connection between 2 cells
c. Pentose d. Participate in enzymatic metabolic reactions
d. Ribose 46. Which of the following undergoes replication during cell division?
32. What functional group differentiates chitin from cellulose? a. Cell membrane
a. Amino group b. Chromosome
b. Phosphate group c. Centromeres
c. Carboxyl group d. Cytoplasm
d. Hydroxyl group 47. Which of the following is a type of potential energy?
33. The rise in the temperature of Earths atmosphere due to increased a. Energy in motion
greenhouse gases is called b. Mechanical energy
a. Microwave effect c. Solar energy
b. Summer phenomenon d. Kinetic energy
c. Heat wave 48. A mango tree is planted besides a sampaguita plant in a garden. They
d. Global warming demonstrate the following relationship
34. What is an organism that is capable in making its own food by producing a. Commensalism
complex organic compound from simple substance using light or chemical b. Mutualism
energy? c. Compensation
a. Parasites d. Predation
b. Commensals 49. Which of the following is true of cell transport?
c. autotrophs a. Homeostasis is maintained because the plasma membrane controls the flow
d. Heterotrophs of particles in and out of the cell
35. Which of the following statements about meiosis is true? b. Passive transport requires energy for it to occur
a. It allows organisms to repair tissue c. Active transport is exemplified by facilitated diffusion
b. It allows organisms to grow d. The plasma membrane does not allow any molecule to freely pass and enter
c. It allows organisms to reproduce asexually the cells
d. It allows organisms to promote genetic diversity 50. The flow of water in our planet as it undergoes the processes of
36. What is true of the cell theory? evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff and substance flow
a. Cells come from pre-existing theory is called
b. Cell membrane dictate data needed for protection a. Snow cycle
c. Some organisms are not composed of cells b. Rain cycle
d. Cytoplasm regulates what goes in and out of cells c. Water cycle
37. What is an example of an under the order Carnivora? d. Hale cycle
a. Lemur 51. Which of the following is a cellular infectious agent not capable of
b. Termites undergoing cell division, but instead requires a living cell in order to replicate?
c. Polar bear a. Protozoa
d. Koala bears b. Bacteria
38. In the case of babies born through in vitro fertilization or IVF, how are IVF c. Fungus
babies commonly referred to? d. Virus
a. Blue babies 52. True enzymes:
b. Rock-a-bye babies a. An enzyme need to change its size in order to accommodate a chemical
c. Baby boomers reaction
d. Test-tube babies b. The substance acted on by enzyme is called a product
39. True of a functional group: c. The included fit model explains the binding between 2 enzyme to form a
a. Specific combination of bonded atoms that has consistent chemical production
properties d. Proteins that decrease the amount of energy needed for a chemical reaction
b. They are usually nonpolar 53. What happens to a plant cell placed in a hypotonic solution?
c. Does not affect the reactivity of the organic molecule to which it is attached a. The plant will shrivel
to b. No effect on the plant cell
d. A particular functional group can react in varied forms depending on the c. The plant will develop a thickened wall
carbon skeleton d. The plant cell will swell
40. A tiger that hunted and ate deer is an example of 54. True of photosynthesis:
a. Parasite and host a. It is type of redox reaction
b. Predator and prey b. Oxygen and water combines to produce carbohydrates
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c. Carbon dioxide is oxidized to form fructose 69. What does a virus release into a bacterial cell when it infects it?
d. Water gains as hydrogen atom forming carbon dioxide a. Viral genomic nucleic acid
55. Which of the following metabolic processes takes place in the cytoplasm? b. Viral plasma membrane
a. Citric acid cycle c. Viral nucleus
b. Electron transport chain d. Viral cytoplasm
c. Glycosis 70. A species of fish lived in lake. When a dam was constructed in the area, a
d. Krebs cycle group of fish was separated and populated a new pond. Then they developed
56. Just like humans and animals, plants relate with one another. What differing characteristics and became a distinct species. Which of the following
relationship occurs when a mango tree is planted beside a Sampaguita plant in concepts explain this specialization?
a garden? a. Geographical isolation
a. Predatism b. Episodic isolation
b. Completion c. Chronoscopic isolation
c. Mutualism d. Behavioural isolation
d. Commensalism 71. What is the Philippine species known as Pithecophaga jefferyl that was
57. Which organisms are found at the top of the ecological pyramid? listed as an endangered species by the 1975 Convention on International
a. Secondary consumer Trade of Endangered Species?
b. Primary consumer a. Philippine Tamaraw
c. Producers b. Bohol tarsier
d. Tertiary consumer c. Palawan peacock pheasant
58. These are plant or animals that were first to populate a previous d. Monkey-eating eagle
ecosystem: 72. The protein shell of a virus is called:
a. Climax community a. Nucleus
b. Early population b. Nucleic acid
c. Pioneer species c. Capsid
d. Serial occupants d. Nucleolus
59. An ant colony stores food in the summer defends itself by stinging enemies 73. True of recessive genes:
and invades a competing ant colony and steals larvae and uses them as new a. Will only have phenotypic expression if present as homozygous genotype
workers. What is the term to best describe how this species copes with b. Have more superior phenotypic traits
everyday life? c. Should be paired with a dominant gene from expressing its phenotype
a. Ecological success ion d. Will prevent a dominant gene from expressing its phenotype
b. Ecological niche 74. In what particular step of protein synthesis do ribosomes participate in?
c. Ecological defeat a. Translation
d. Environmental habitation b. Cell division
60. True of radiant energy: c. Replication
a. Lower-energy wavelengths are screened out by the zone d. Transcription
b. It exist in a wide range of wavelengths 75. What is the natural cause for what is known as a fish kill in lakes and
c. Only very short wavelengths of visible light, energy content is highest for red estuaries?
light a. Excessive fishing
d. Among several wavelengths of visible light, energy content is highest for red b. Acid rain
61. What is the maximum total ATP energy yield for every glucose molecule c. Use of oxygen
metabolized? d. Lowering water levels
a. 34 76. A scientist puts nucleotide chains UUU in a test tube under conditions
b. 38 allowing proteins synthesis. Soon the test tube is full of the amino acid
c. 32 phenylalanine. This demonstrate
d. 36 a. Proteins can only contains 1 type of amino acid
62. What transport system in plants move water from its roots to the top of the b. Uralic is the basic molecule of phenylalanine
tree? c. UUU is the genetic code for phenylalanine
a. Photosynthesis d. Protein synthesis cannot be stimulated in vitro
b. Transpiration 77. The study and science of heredity is called
c. Capillarity a. Pathology
d. Respiration b.Paediatrics
63. Of the following which is NOT an example of Biome? c. Geriatrics
a. Forest d. Genetics
b. Lake 78. What are the four most abundant elements found in living matter?
c. Grassland a. Nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and carbon
d. Dessert b. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen
64. How are original or primary forests referred to? c. Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and sulphur
a. Virgin forest d. Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphorus
b. Green forest 79. True of Trisomy 21:
c. Rain forest a. An abnormality of chromosomes inheritance in which there are 3 copies of
d. Verdant forest chromosomes 21
65. What is the substrate that enters the citric acid cycle? b. Also known as Turners syndrome
a. Glucose c. Present with superior mental intelligence, tall stature and protruding eyeballs
b. Lactate d. Results when an individuals is missing 3 chromosomes
c. Pyruvate 80. True of essential amino acids:
d. Acety-A a. Obligated to be taken in the diet because it cannot be produced by the body
66. What is a possible consequence of eutrophication? b. Can be synthesized the body if water is present
a. Significantly c. Least important of all the nutrients
b. Decreased toxicity of bodies of water d. Are more important than the others
c. Less turbidity of water 81. The following is true of the circulatory system:
d. Water that is calories and odor-free a. It as an open system
67. Which of the following are most likely consequences of air pollution? b. Synovial fluid flows through the circulatory system
a. Enriched flora and fauna c. It include the systemic and pulmonary circulation
b. Enhanced cardiovascular endurance d. The main organ in this system is the liver
c. Decreased incidence of cancer 82. True of DNA replication:
d. Exacerbation of lung disease such as COPD a. DNA replication is said to be non-conservative
68. What is the maximum number of ATP produced by the electron transport b. Replication proceeds in only one directions
chain? c. DNA is translated to give rise to proteins
a. 36 d. Each new DNA molecule contains one old and one new strand
b. 38
c. 40 83. Eula has bacterial pneumonia. What medication should be given to
d. 34 manage her illness?
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a. Antibiotics a. They reproduce at a fast rate
b. Antiviral b. They need much caring and cultivating
c. Analgesic c. They exhibit contrasting traits
d. Anti-inflammatory drugs d. Their flowers are structurally adapted or self-pollination
84. An 80 year-old man has sudden severe chest pain due to insufficient blood 93. When is prenatal screening with the use of DNA technology applied in
flow to the heart causing death of cardiac muscles. This condition is called: order to detect congenital metabolic disorders in babies?
a. Myocardial infarction a. 9 months of the fetus in the womb
b. Pneumonia b. Within 48 hours after delivery
c. Costochondritis c. Within 36 hours after delivery
d. Dyspepsia d. Of the fetus in the womb
85. Which of the following states that in given species, the amount of adenine 94. A normal mother and normal father produced two children, one normal child
is equal to thymine, and the amount of guanine is equal to the amount of and the other an albino child. What kind of genes controlled the albino such
cytosine? that he had abnormal skin pigmentation?
a. Cricks law a. Mixture of dominant and recessive genes Aa
b. Franklins theory b. Both dominant or AA
c. Watsons hypothesis c. Both recessive or aa
d. Chargaffs rules d. Dominance of recessive over dominant genes or aaA
86. True of natural selection: 95. Gene therapy corrects detectable gene disorders but this is NOT one of its
a. Majority of the population will possess unfavourable trait and it becomes procedures:
maladapted to the environment a. Addition of functional cells
b. The most adapted individuals die and become extinct b. Cells extraction from patient
c. Human choose and breed selected animals with particulars traits to c.Reintroduction of corrected cells into patient
reproduce d. New born screening
d. Members of a population have heritable variations 96. What is true about herbivores?
87. A person diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, if not treated adequately, will a. They are the main producers in the food chain
have the following: b. They are at the apex of the food chain
a. Uncontrolled elevated blood sugar level c. They can be producers if given adequate water and food
b. Insufficient oxygenation of the blood d. They are only consumers
c. Uncontrolled elevated blood carbon dioxide 97. Which combined tissues are directly involved when a boy kicks, a frog
d. Uncontrolled elevated uremic toxins in the blood leaps or a bird flies?
88. True of reproductive cloning: a. Nerves and muscles
a. The goal is to produce organs that are genetically modified b. Bones and nerves
b. Results in an organism genetically distinct from an original organism c. Muscles and bones
c. The goal is to produce an organism genetically identical to the original d. Blood and muscles
d. Results in production of tissue that can be radioactive 98. Which of the following pertains to slight quantifiable evolutionary
89. What is the term for the evolutionary history of a group of organisms? modifications within a population from generation to generation?
a. Genetic. a. Microevolution
b. Systematic b. Artificial selection
c. Phylogeny c. Generational selection
d. Speciation d. Evolutionary upheaval
90. What is produced by the mating or interbreeding of two closely related 99. Which protest causes malaria?
species namely a female horse and a male donkey? a. Euglena
a. Mare b. Plasmodium
b. Stallion c. Fungi
c. Mule d. HIV
d. Hinny 100. Of the following which does NOT characterize the bacteria, which is
91. Who was the author of Principles of geology who gave evidence that Earth believed to be the earliest life-forms having lived 3.8 million years ago?
was subject to slow but continuous geological cycles of erosion and uplift? a. Has nuclear membrane to separate nuclear materials from cytoplasm
a. Charles Lyell b. Made up of prokaryotic
b. Charles Darwin c. Has cell was made up of protein-carbonate complex
c. Charles Lamarck d. Has single circular DNA
d. Charles Windsor
92. Of the following, which is NOT one of the reasons why Mendel selected
garden peas for his experiments?

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