1. Where do producers obtain their energy? C.

Fatty acid
A. From other producers D. Monosaccharide
B. From the consumers
C. From the decomposers 10.Where does protein synthesis take place?
D. From the sun A. Ribosomes
B. Lysosomes
2. Why do you experience not seeing things clearly C. Endoplasmic reticulum
for some seconds when you enter suddenly a well- D. Golgi bodies
lighted room after coming from a dark room, you?
A. The pupils are not adapted to the dark 11. Why are our lips “redder” than our palm?
B. The eyes are adapted to the light only A. There is increased blood flow in the lips
C. The pupils are not dilated yet B. Lips are heavily keratinized
D. Light had caused temporary blindness C. Lip epidermis is thinner
D. Many blood vessels are located around the
3. What term is used to describe the ability to lips
maintain a constant internal environment?
A. Metabolism 12. Which of the following cannot be found in
B. Growth and development prokaryotes?
C. Homeostasis A. Cytoplasm
D. Thermoregulation B. Plasma membrane
C. Membrane-bound nucleus
4.What is the most common cause of D. DNA
cardiovascular disease?
A. Fatty deposits in the arteries 13. What do we call mutation that is brought about
B. Inadequate supply of red blood cells by the earth natural radioactivity?
C. Lack of sodium in the diet A. Continuous
D. Increased heartbeat B. Induced
C. Lysosomes
5.Which is the smallest unit of life that can survive D. Chloroplast
and reproduce on its own?
A. Cell 14.Which of the following organelles produces
B. Organ turbo pressure against cell wall and mainly acts as
C. Tissues water reservoir
D. Population A. Plastids
B. Vacuole
6.Which region of a vertebrate forebrain is C. Lysosomes
considered with the neutral-endocrine control of D. Chloroplast
visceral activities?
A. Cerebellum 15. What is the branch crobial organisms is used in
B. Thalamus the creation of genetically modified organisms?
C. Hypothalamus A. Pseudomonas vulgaris
D. Pituitary B. Bacillus thuringensis
C. Agro bacterium tumafaciens
7.Which of the following is the building block D. Escherichia coli
carbohydrate?
A. Amino acid 16.What is the branch of zoology that is devoted to
B. Nucleotide the study of fish?
C. Fatty acid A. Helmintology
D. Monosaccharide B. Ichthyology
C. Chondrichthyes
8. Why it is necessary men have more red blood D. Ornithology
cells per cubic millimeter of blood than women?
A. Man does strenuous activities and need more 17. The process involved in the production of
energy mRNA using DNA as template is termed _______?
B. They have bigger physique and need more A. Transcription
blood B. Replication
C. Man wastes more blood cells and need extra C. Gene manipulation
D. They are more prone to anemia disorders D. Reverse transcription

9.Which of the following is the building block of 18.What is the most abundant inorganic compound
protein? in the protoplasm?
A. Amino acid A. Fluid
B. Nucleotide B. Blood
C. Plasma 27. The bipolar nature of the cell membrane is due
D. Water to _______.
A. Presence of carries
19.Which is the riches type of tropical rain forest in B. Presence of oxygen
the Philippines? C. Phospholipids bilayer
A. Molave forest D. Integral proteins
B. Dipterocarp forest
C. Mangrove forest 28.Which of the following is made up of diploid
D. Pine forest number of cells?
A. Zygote
20.What muscle is described as involuntary, not B. Sperm cell
striated, and have a single nucleus? C. Egg cell
A. Smooth D. Both B and C
B. Skeletal
C. Cardiac 29.Which plant has underground stem modified for
D. Connective reproduction?
A. Ginger
21.We feel warmer just before it rains because B. Camote
__________. C. Tubers
A. Heat is released by the evaporation of water D. Strawberry
B. The clouds prevent heat from escaping the
earth 30.Which of the following structures serve as a
C. There is an increased relative humidity passageway of food and air?
D. Heat is released by the condensation of water A. Epiglottis
vapor B. Trachea
C. Pharynx
22.Which of the following is not considered as a D. Larynx
reproductive cell?
A. Gamete 31.Which kind of relationship is exhibited by algae
B. Somatic cell and fungi in lichen?
C. Egg cell A. Commensalism
D. Sperm cell B. Parasitism
C. Symbiosis
23.The cell wall of plant is made of _______. D. Competition
A. Lipids
B. Cellulose 32.What do you call the finger-like folds on the
C. Protein inner linings of the small intestine?
D. Cell membrane A. Villi
B. Appendix
24.Which of the following is the correct sequence of C. Rugae
the level of organization from lowest to highest? D. Cecum
A. Cells-system-organs-tissues
B. System-organs-tissues-cells 33. 33. Aside from ADP, what else is the end
C. Cells-tissues-organs-system production of the dark-reaction phase of
D. Tissues-systems-cells-organs photosynthesis?
A. Carbon dioxide
25.At metaphase of the meiotic division, the B. Sugar
chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibers as C. Carbon
________. D. Starch
A. Double chromatids
B. Non-homologous pairs 34.What is that flap-like structure that prevents the
C. Single chromatid strands food from going the wrong way during swallowing?
D. A tetrad of four chromatids A. Epiglottis
B. Larynx
26.Which of the following is an example of C. Esophagus
behavioral adaption? D. Pharynx
A. Thick green stems of the cactus plant
B. Thick fur of the bear 35. Which pigment is dominant in red algae?
C. Shedding leaves during summer A. Phycocyanin
D. Presence of cuticle on the upper surface of the B. Fucoxanthin
leaves C. Chlorophyll
D. Pharynx
36. What is the membrane that surrounds the 45.Where does the toxin substance secreted by
lungs? bees and ants through their sting originate?
A. Pleura A. Silk glands
B. Meninges B. Intestines
C. Peritoneum C. Rectal glands
D. Pericardium D. Salivary glands

37. What is that 3-carbon sugar formed during the 46.What is the longest bone in the body?
dark reaction phase of the photosynthesis? A. Humerus
A. ADP B. Femur
B. NADPH C. Tibia-fibula
C. ATP D. Clavicle
D. PGAL
47.Which cause our bones to turn brittle and easily
38. What is the product of carbohydrate digestion? break?
A. Fatty acid A. Turning into muscle tissues
B. Glucose B. Increase in flexibility
C. Amino acid C. Turbidity decrease
D. Nucleic acid D. Removal of collagen

39. What process is responsible for the upward 48. How many bones does an adult human body
movement of the water in very tall trees? has?
A. Osmosis A. 201
B. Capillary action B. 200
C. Turgor pressure C. 217
D. Transpiration D. 206

40.What is the enzyme in the mouth that breaks 49. What do you call automatic responses to an
starch to maltose? external stimulus?
A. Peptidase A. Reflex
B. Ptyalin B. Instinct
C. Pepsin C. Impulse
D. Maltase D. All of these

41.What do you call the types of symmetry where 50.What structure provides flexible support and
the body parts are paired on either side of the protection to the spinal cord?
body? A. Skull
A. Dorsal B. Ribs
B. Bilateral C. Vertebral column
C. Radial D. Sternum
D. Ventral

42.Which is considered as the respiratory center of

43.Which stage of incomplete metamorphism is

44.Which of the following is NOT part of the