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CATALINA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Candelaria, Quezon

THIRD PERIODICAL EXAMINATION IN SCIENCE 10

Name: ________________________________ Score: ____________

Section: ________________________________
Directions: Analyze the questions carefully and encircle the best correct answer. Used your time
effectively, remember finishing the examination early does not equate any point. Making sure of your
answer however, may give you a point.
1. Which of the following are the parts of neurons?
a. brain, spinal cord, and vertebral column c. sensory and motor
b. dendrite, axon, and cell body d. sympathetic and parasympathetic
2. What are the main divisions of the nervous system?
a. the peripheral nervous system and central nervous system
b. the dendritic and the axonal systems
c. the sensory system and the motor system
d. the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
3. The human nervous system is capable of a wide range of functions. What is the basic unit of the
nervous system?
a. Glial cell b. Brain c. Neuron d. Nerve
4. How do neurons communicate with one another?
a. Electrically b. Chemically c. Through weak, radio-wave-like impulse d. a and B
5. Which of the following are characteristic of the sympathetic system?
a. sweating c. accelerates the heartbeat
b. dilates of pupil d. All of the above
6. What do you call to the chemical messengers that are produced in one body region and affect a
different body region?
a.Nucleic acids b. Enzymes c. Hormones d. Neurotransmitters
7. Which hormone dramatically affects physical appearance?
a. Steroid b. Growth c. male and female d. gonadotropin
8. What two hormones are produced by the pancreas?
a. insulin and glucagonc. androgen and estrogen
b. ACTH and FSH d. glucagen and insulin
9. What is the disorder caused by too much or too little amount of secreted hormone of thyroid gland?
a. Goiter b. Dwarfism c. Gigantism d. Osteoporosis
10. Allof the following are hormones of the anterior pituitary EXCEPT:
a. human growth hormone (GH)
b. follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).
c. parathyroid hormone(PTH).
d. thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
11. Which statement is true about menstruation?
a. The shedding of the lining of the uterus along with some blood once a month.
b. The ovary releases millions of eggs every 28 days.
c. The monthly cycle continues for about 40 months.
d. Menstrual cramps are the result of egg being release from the ovary.
12. Which hormones are responsible in producing breast milk?
a. progesterone and estrogen c. estrogen and androgen
b. prolactin and oxytocin d. prolactin and estrogen
13. What is the function of the uterus in female reproductive system?
a. It is the site of egg implantation. c. It is the area where egg cells are produced.
b. Receives the penis of male during mating d. All of the above
14. Of the following male organs, which one is considered a primary sex organ?
a. ejaculatory ducts b. gonads (testes) c. penis d. Seminal vesicles
15. What are the responsibleorgan that carrysperm filled semen from the male to the female's vagina?
a.prostate glandb. gonads c. seminal vesicles d. penis and urethra 16. It
protect the testes and maintain the temperature to 2 degrees lower than body temperature.
a. scrotumc. urethra
b. prostate gland d. Cowper’s gland
17. What is the process of copying information from DNA strand to mRNA?
a.Transcribe b. Replication c. Transcription d. Duplication
18. What enzyme binds and opens DNA molecule?
a.DNA primaseb. DNA polymerase c. RNA primase d. RNA polymerase
19. What are the nitrogenous bases found in RNA?
a. Adenine, Uracil, Cytosine, Guanine c. Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine
b. Adenine, Uracil, Thymine, Guanine d. Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Uracil
 20. What is the building block of protein molecule?
a. Sugar b. amino acid c. mRna d. carbohydrate
21. Which RNA molecules supplies amino acids to the ribosome to be assembled as protein?
a. tRNA b. mRNA c. rRNA d. pRNA
22. It is a change in the base sequence of DNA.
a. Intervention b. Deletion c. Insertion d. Mutation
23. What is the second most common trisomy after Down’s syndrome?
a. Cri du chat c. Jacobsen syndrome
b. Edwards syndrome d. Turner’s syndrome
24. If this strand TGGTGACCGAA is replicated, which of the following is the complementary strand that
is produced?
a. ACCACTGGCATT c. ACCACTGTCATT
b. ACCACTGGAAA d. ACTCCATGGCAT
25. Using the same DNA base sequence in item number 24, transcribed it into mRNA, what would be
the resulting strand?
a. ACCCCUGGCAAU C. ACCACUGCGAUU
b. ACCACUGGCAUU D. ACCACUGGCUAU
26. What does it form when two or more different genetic material is combined?
a. Recombinant DNA b. Duplicated DNA c. DNA Replication d. Duplicated RNA
27. Who proposed the Theory of Natural Selection?
a. Charles Darwinb. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck c. Alexander Bahret d. John Heyden
28.The process by which organism produces offspring and perpetuate species is called ______.
a. Variation b. Selection c. Reproduction d. Evolution
29. Where can most of the fossils be found?
a. Sedimentary rock b. Granite rock c. Lava flows d. Black soil
30. Which of the following statements DOES NOT describe evolution?
a. Evolution is continuous.
b. Evolution refers to change.
c. The world is stable and unchanging.
d. If there is mutation, there is evolution
31. Which species has same amino acid with humans?
a.horse b. fruit fly c. chimpanzee d. rhesus monkey
32. Which of the following statements support the idea that extinction is necessary?
a. To give way for other organism to develop
b. To let other organisms evolve and progress
c. To know who is the fittest
d. All of the above
33. Which is true about Divergent Evolution?
a. An increase in the difference among descendants of a single ancestral species as time passes.
b. A decrease in the difference among descendants of a single ancestral species as time passes.
c. An increase in the similarities among descendants of a single ancestral species as time passes.
d. A decrease in the similarities among descendants of a single ancestral species as time passes.
34. Which of the following causes a decreasing wildlife population in most of the places in our country?
a. loss of limiting factor c. loss of habitat
b. loss of natural disturbance d. loss of carrying capacity

II. Sequence the following steps in protein synthesis from first to last (35-40).
________ A. Transcription
________ B. tRNA-amino acid units link to mRNA
________ C. Amino acid separate from tRNA
________ D. Polypeptide chain assembled
________ E. mRNA links to ribosome
________ F. Stop codon encountered in mRNA

III. True or False. If the answer is False, change the underlined word(s) to make the statement true.
_________41. The sugar found in RNA is called deoxyribose.
_________42. The DNA molecule is double stranded and the RNA molecule is single stranded.
_________43. The process oftranslation occurs at the ribosome.
_________44. The job of mRNA is to pick up amino acids and transport them to the ribosomes.
_________45.Transcription must occur before translation may occur.
_________46.The central nervous system (CNS) includes the brain and the spinal cord.
_________47.Somatic motor neurons are responsible for both reflex and voluntary control of skeletal
muscle.
_________48.Vas deferenscarries sperm from testes to urethra.
_________49.Pituitary glandenables the body to produce certain antibodies.
_________50.Thyroxin hormones is released by the adrenal gland.
Key for test II and III
II
35-a
36-e
37-b
38-c
39-d
40-f

III
41.Ribose
42.True
43.True
44.tRNA
45.TRUE
46.TRUE
47.TRUE
48.True
49.THYMUS
50.THYROID