Majorship: Biological Science Questions

1. Which of the following is a part of the b. non-homologous pairs

process of chemiosmosis? c. single chromatid strand
a. Protons move along the electron d. a tetrad of chromatids
transport chain.
b. Water molecules are split. 8. Which type of cell would probably provide
c. Hydrogen ions pass through the best opportunity to study lysosomes?
membranes. a. Leaf
d. Light is absorbed by chlorophyll. b. Nerve
c. Muscle
1. During mitosis, a double-stranded d. White blood
chromosome is attached to a spindle fiber
at the ___________. 9. Which best describes meiosis as another
a. cell plate form of cell division with accompanying
b. centromere nuclear changes?
c. centrosome a. The nuclear changes follow one
d. centriole another indefinitely.
b. Each new cell has double the
2. Which is an effect of drugs on cells? amount from both parents.
a. Produce toxic substance c. The nucleoli break up into two parts
b. Discontinuous cell activity and disappear.
c. Cause damage to their structure d. Each new cell has half the number
d. Poison the cell liquid of chromosomes.

3. The cell wall of plant is made of 10. How are mitochondria and chloroplasts
______________. similar to bacteria? They
a. Lipid a. are larger than normal cells.
b. Cellulose b. are bounded by a single membrane.
c. Protein c. lack ribosomes.
d. Cell membrane d. have a limited amount of genetic
material.
4. Which is the storage cell of plants?
a. Microtubule 11. Which is the energy storage compound
b. Collenchyma used to do all forms of work of the cell?
c. Meristem a. Electron
d. Parenchyma b. Adenine
c. Nicotinamide
5. Which results from drinking saltwater? d. Adenosine triphosphate
a. Poisoning of the cells
b. Dehydration of the cells
c. Increase in cell pressure
d. Bursting of the cells 12. Meiosis reduces genetic make-up by half.
What process brings it back to diploid
state?
6. What kind of tissue lines our skin and what a. Menstruation
is its important function? b. Fertilization
a. Nerve tissue; responsible for c. Ejaculation
reflexes d. Mitosis
b. Epithelial; protection from
ultraviolet radiation 13. The bipolar nature of the cell membrane is
c. Nerve tissue; receive stimuli on the due to ___________.
skin a. presence of carriers
d. Epithelial; produce new cells when b. presence of glycolipids
peeled off c. phospholipid bilayer
d. integral protein
7. At metaphase of the first meiotic division,
the chromosomes are attached to the 14. When a red blood cell is placed in distilled
spindle fibers as ____________. water, it _____________.
a. double chromatids a. plasmolyses
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 b. remains the same d. Oxygen
c. shrinks
d. swells 23. Which is the universal energy source of the
cell of all living things?
15. The “eyes” of potato are actually a. Carbon
______________. b. ATP
a. internodes c. H2O
b. nodes d. PGAL
c. leaf scars and buds
d. stems

16. Which of these is NOT a fruit?

a. Cucumber 24. When the staminate flower is found in one
b. Ampalaya plant and the pistillate flower on another,
c. Squash the plants is described as ___________.
d. Carrot a. complete
b. monoecious
17. Which plant has underground stem c. robust
modified for reproduction? d. dioecious
a. Banana
b. Bermuda 25. Which pigment is dominant in red algae?
c. Potato a. Phycocyanin
d. Strawberry b. Fucoxanthin
c. Chlorophyll
d. Phycoerythrin

26. Which process during photosynthesis

involves the addition of hydrogen?
18. Which plants formed the vast coal beds a. Oxidation
during the carboniferous period? b. Hydration
a. Lycopods c. Carbonation
b. Conifers d. Reduction
c. Angiosperms
d. Gymnosperms 27. The dark reaction phase of photosynthesis
consists of a series of chemical reactions
19. What kind of relationship is exhibited by which end up with the formation of a 3-
an alga and a fungus in lichen? carbon sugar called ____________.
a. Commensalism a. ADP
b. Parasitism b. NADPH
c. Mutualism c. ATP
d. Competition d. PGAL

20. Chlorophyll appears green because the 28. Which cell structure regulates the opening
green portion of light is ___________. and closing of the stomata?
a. dispersed a. Phloem
b. absorbed b. Xylem
c. refracted c. Companion
d. reflected d. Guard

21. The end products of dark reaction phase of 29. Spraying some plants with combination of
photosynthesis are ADP and ________. auxins and gibberellins will
a. carbon dioxide ____________.
b. sugar a. promote ripening of fruits.
c. carbon b. result to seed dormancy.
d. nitrogen c. allow division of cells
d. enlarge fruit growth
22. Which gas is needed by the seed during
germination?
a. Nitrogen
b. Carbon dioxide 30. All flowering plants belong to
c. Hydrogen ______________.

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 a. conifers a. viviparous
b. angiospermae b. primates
c. filicinae c. oviparous
d. gymnospermae d. marsupials

31. Fruit growers often propagate their plants 39. To what order do pouch bearing
by a sexual means because the resulting mammals?
off spring will __________. a. Marsupials
a. be an improved variety than the b. Craniata
parent c. Monotremata
b. show little variation from the parent d. Placental mammals
c. bear larger fruit than the parent
d. show no environmental variation 40. Large colonies belonging to class Anthozoa
secrete hard skeletons which later form
32. Which of the following is incorrectly reefs.
paired? a. Sea anemone
a. Cnidaria- corals b. Obelia
b. Porifera- sponge c. Coral
c. Annelida- earthworm d. Jellyfish
d. Platyhelminthes-Ascaris
41. When body parts are paired on either side
33. What process is the cause for the upward of the body; this type of symmetry is
movement of water in very tall trees? called _________.
a. Transpiration a. Dorso-ventral
b. Osmosis b. Bilateral
c. Turgor pressure c. Radial
d. Air pressure d. Dorsal

34. Which popular plant is described as

carnivorous?
a. Water hyacinth
b. Cactus
c. Pitcher plant 42. What substance do leeches secrete which
d. Kataka-taka keeps the blood they feed on stay at liquid
state?
35. What is the purpose of RA 8749? a. Hemoglobin
a. Prevent rather than control air b. Ecdysone
pollution c. Anticoagulin
b. Formulate air pollution d. Fibrinogen
management
c. Utilize sustainable development 43. One who specializes in all kinds of fishes
d. All of the above and their characteristics has expertise on
_______________.
a. taxonomy
b. histology
c. entomology
36. What do you call the male gametophyte of d. ichthyology
an angiosperm?
a. Pollen 44. In protozoans, digestion occurs in the
b. Ovule ___________.
c. Seed a. stomach
d. Petal b. contractile vacuole
c. ribosome
37. Which root system is the best adapted for d. food vacuole
anchorage?
a. Secondary 45. What is a distinguishing characteristic of
b. Tertiary Homo sapiens over the lower mammals?
c. Taproot a. Blood vessels
d. Fibrous b. Sensitive skin
38. Egg-laying mammals are called c. Large brain
____________. d. Endoskeleton

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 a. The lungs release water vapor.
46. What kind of adaptation enables the b. Mucous glands are activated.
walking stick to elude its enemies? c. Tears enter the duct to the nasal
a. Aggressive mimicry cavity.
b. Aggressive adaptation d. The sinuses release water.
c. Protective mimicry
d. Protective coloration

47. Which stages of incomplete

metamorphosis is undergone by
grasshopper? 54. What is the main function of the peripheral
a. Nymph, pupa, adult nervous system?
b. Egg, larva, pupa, adult a. Communicates with the endocrine
c. Egg, nymph, adult glands
d. Egg, pupa, adult b. Regulates our heartbeat and
breathing
c. Controls our emotions and
intelligence
d. Connects central nervous system to
48. Which are the hosts of Ascaris all organs
lumbricoides and Ascaris suum?
a. Cow and man 55. What causes our bones to turn brittle?
b. Man and dog a. Turning into muscle tissue
c. Cow and pig b. Increase in flexibility
d. Man and pig c. Turbidity decreased
d. Removal of collagen
49. Two organisms can be identified as
belonging to the same species if they can 56. Which part of the neuron conducts impulse
____________. from other neurons toward the cell body?
a. eat the same kind of food a. Axon
b. breed in a natural setting b. Ganglia
c. tolerate one another in nature c. Synapse
d. survive together in nature d. Dendrite

50. Arthropods exhibit fast and coordinated 57. The tendency to react automatically to an
movement because they possess external stimulus is called a/an
_____________. _____________.
a. an endoskeleton a. habituation
b. jointed appendages b. aggression
c. exoskeleton c. imprinting
d. bilateral symmetry d. reflex

51. The following statements are true of 58. Which hormone promotes the development
spiders EXCEPT of secondary female sexual characteristics
a. Have rectal glands for potassium such as broad pelvis and enlarged breasts?
and water reabsorption a. Testosterone
b. Tagmata include cephalothorax and b. Estrogen
abdomen c. Melatonin
c. Contain silk glands for web making d. Growth
d. Posses 3 pairs of legs
59. Which part of the ear is dangerously
52. The relationship that exists between affected when sound is of hundred
insects and flowering plants is called decibels?
______________. a. Pinna
a. parasitism b. Eustachian tube
b. predation c. Semi-circular canal
c. mutualism d. Tympanic membrane
d. commensalism

53. Which of the following causes our nose to

“run” when we cry?

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60. What organs cause high concentration of
calcium in the blood? 68. Where does exchange of materials
a. Liver and Pancreas between the blood and other body tissues
b. Pituitary and Testis take place?
c. Thyroid and Parathyroid a. Platelets
d. Pineal body and Thymus b. Veins
c. Arteries
61. People who live in high altitude have blood d. Capillaries
that is described to have _____ blood
cells. 69. What explains why our lips are “redder”
a. High number of white than out palm?
b. Low number of red a. Many blood vessels are located
c. Same number of red around the lips
d. High number of red b. Lip epidermis is thinner
c. Lips are heavily keratinized
62. Creativity is a desirable trait that should d. There is increased blood flow in the
be developed among our students. lips
Describe a creative person.
a. Creates beautiful set-ups. 70. Which part of breathing occurs when the
b. Imitates scientists at work. diaphragm muscles are pulled downwards,
c. Originates own procedures. thus increasing the chest cavity?
d. Announces same solutions. a. Expiration
b. Release of energy
63. If the flow of blood in a vessel is toward c. Release of gases
the heart then the vessel is identified as a d. Inspiration
________.
a. Ventricle 71. In an experiment, which is the condition
b. Artery being introduced and whose effect is being
c. Vein observed?
d. Atrium a. Conclusion formulated
b. Constant variable
64. The funnel shaped opening through which c. Manipulated variable
the egg cell is released to is the d. Tentative variable
a. Umbilical cord
b. Uterus
c. Fallopian tube 72. Which of the following pancreatic fluids is
d. Proximal tubules responsible for the breakdown of fat?
a. Chymotrypsin
65. Which one is insufficient in cretinism? b. Amylase
a. Insulin c. Trypsin
b. Adrenalin d. Lipase
c. Parathormone
d. Thyroxin 73. Which part of the brain controls our rate of
breathing?
a. Cerebellum
b. Cerebrum
66. When there is no food available for days, c. Spinal cord
what could serve as the fuel source of the d. Medulla
cells in your body?
a. Fats in adipose tissue 74. Through what part does the embryo obtain
b. Albumin in the blood its nourishment from the mother?
c. Cholesterol in blood vessels a. oviduct
d. Bone marrow inside the bone b. food tubules
c. fallopian tube
67. What instrument has a flexible scope that d. umbilical cord
is used to examine the esophagus and
stomach? 75. What organ is controlled by the autonomic
a. ultrasound nervous system?
b. laser a. Brain
c. endoscope b. Heart
d. scanner c. Spinal cord

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 d. Skeletal muscles a. Taking in carbon dioxide and
releasing oxygen.
76. What is one of the main functions of the b. Taking in oxygen and releasing
large intestine? carbon dioxide.
a. Excrete undigested food c. Breathing in a mixture of different
b. Digest food into liquid form gases.
c. Excrete bile pigments from ducts d. Breathing in of pure gas
d. Complete the digestion of proteins
85. Which type of muscle tissue found in the
77. What do you call food in a semi-liquid walls of our stomach is responsible for the
form, partially digested and mixed with process of peristalsis?
hydrochloric acid? a. Striated
a. Mucosa b. Cardiac
b. Chyme c. Smooth
c. Saliva d. Voluntary
d. Bolus
86. Which of the hormone triggers ovulation?
a. Follicle-stimulating
b. Testosterone
c. Luteinizing
78. Which would you advise children to d. Prolactin
prevent osteoporosis?
a. More intake of all vitamins 87. What do we call a prediction that is made
b. Consistent bone density test based on educated guess?
c. Less bone exercise and fatigue a. Inference
d. Adequate calcium and Vitamin D b. Hypothesis
c. Interpolation
79. Which is considered the endocrine master d. Extrapolation
gland due to its influence on the activity of
all the other glands? 88. How does the liver assist the digestive
a. Thyroid system?
b. Adrenal a. Stores starch
c. Pituitary b. It secretes bile
d. Parathyroid c. Acts on protein food
d. Mixes with the pancreatic juice
80. What enzyme is secreted by the pancreas
which splits sugar? 89. What structures in the tongue make it
a. Lipase distinguish food quality?
b. Pepsin a. Nerves
c. Trypsin b. Tasters
d. Amylase c. Taste buds
d. Taste epithelium
81. What do we get from carbohydrates and 90. Which protein found in the plasma is
fats? responsible for blood clotting?
a. Cell builders a. Fibrinogen
b. Tissue builders b. Albumin
c. Heat and energy c. Globulin
d. Growth regulators d. Serum

82. What secretes substance which enables 91. White blood cells are the “soldiers” of the
the sugar to be stored in the liver? body. They fight the disease-causing
a. Islets of Langerhans organisms. They are the ___________.
b. Adrenal medulla a. Antigens
c. Adrenal cortex b. Antibodies
d. Thyroid c. Phagocytes
83. What sac protects the heart? d. Erythrocytes
a. Pericardium
b. Septum 92. What blood test is used to provide
c. Atrium information about agglutination reactions
d. Valve between donor and recipient blood?
84. What BEST describes respiration? a. Clotting test

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 b. Blood count a. Phagocytes
c. Blood chemistry b. Sex of donor
d. Type and cross-match c. Race of recipient
d. Antigen-antibody reaction
93. Which produce the hormone MOST closely
associated with the control of calcium 97. What special equipment is placed inside
metabolism? the heart to generate electrical impulse?
a. Ovaries a. Endoscope
b. Pancreas b. Pacemaker
c. Adrenal glands c. Heart pump
d. Parathyroid glands d. Artificial valve

94. What is the function of the lymph? 98. The modern horse has fewer toes than its
a. Transport oxygen ancestors’. Such change is governed by
b. Contains fibrinogen _________.
c. Enables the blood to clot a. use and disuse
d. Protects the body from infection b. natural selection
c. reduction division
95. Which part of the brain is responsible for d. chromosomal deletions
intelligence, memory and learned
behavior? 99. Which theory on how life began do
a. Cerebellum chemists and geologists agree on today?
b. Cerebrum a. Spontaneous generation
c. Thalamus b. Special creation
d. Medulla c. Cosmozoic
96. What is the major problem involved in d. Naturalistic
organ transplants?

1. C 21. D 41. C 61. C 81. D

2. B 22. B 42. B 62. D 82. C
3. C 23. D 43. C 63. C 83. A
4. B 24. B 44. D 64. C 84. A
5. D 25. D 45. D 65. C 85. B
6. B 26. D 46. C 66. D 86. C
7. D 27. D 47. D 67. A 87. C
8. D 28. D 48. C 68. C 88. B
9. D 29. D 49. D 69. D 89. B
10. D 30. D 50. B 70. B 90. C
11. D 31. B 51. B 71. D 91. A
12. D 32. A 52. D 72. C 92. C
13. B 33. D 53. C 73. D 93. D
14. C 34. A 54. C 74. D 94. D
15. D 35. C 55. D 75. D 95. D
16. C 36. D 56. D 76. B 96. B
17. D 37. A 57. D 77. A 97. D
18. C 38. C 58. D 78. B 98. B
19. A 39. C 59. B 79. D 99. B
20. C 40. A 60. D 80. C 100. D

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