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Algae, Fungi, and Plants - International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICZN).

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 2
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All living things are composed of either one or more cells that are highly complex yet organized and enclosed within membranes.

Select one:
a. Cellular complexity
b. Growth and Development
c. Homeostasis
d. Irritability

Question 3
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All organisms are very sensitive to different stimuli-may it be environmental or physiological. This may refer to any form of response or
movement to stimuli in its own volition.

Select one:
a. Homeostasis
b. Irritability
c. Reproduction
d. Cellular complexity
Question 4

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Any change in the allele frequencies in a population due to random sampling is called?

Select one:
a. Genetic Drift
b. Mutation
c. Gene Flow
d. Recombination’s

Question 5
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A primitive characters known as plesiomorphy; a shared primitive character between two or more taxa is symplesiomorphy: a derived
character is apomorphy a shared derived character between two or more taxa is known as a synapomorphy.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Question 6
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A result of migrating individuals that breed in a new location is called?

Select one:
a. Gene Flow
b. Recombination’s
c. Genetic Drift
d. Mutation

Question 7
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A rooted tree is used when each of the node represents the most recent common ancestor of the taxa branching from it.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE
Question 8

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As the ancestries of organisms increase their ranges to unusual environments, they adapt to function in those new surroundings. The
comparable traits that different populations inherited from the common ancestors may be modified and diverge from each other.

Select one:
a. Vestigial Structures and Organs
b. Contrivances
c. None of the above
d. Embryology

Question 9
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A taxonomist uses different characters to determine recency of common descent.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 10
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Because of sexual reproduction, new gene combinations are introduced into a population; thus, it can be an important source of genetic
variation.

Select one:
a. Mutation
b. Recombination’s
c. Genetic Drift
d. Gene Flow

Question 11
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Carl Linne, a Swedish botanist, created this system of nomenclature in 1735 as Systema naturae.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE 
Question 12

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Cellular complexity state that all living things are composed of either one or more cells that are highly complex yet organized and enclosed
within membranes.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Question 13
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Continuity of life would definitely be impossible without reproduction. We know that no organism can live forever: however, through this
fundamental quality, life continues and traits are passed on from generation to generation.

Select one:
a. Homeostasis
b. Reproduction
c. Cellular complexity
d. Irritability

Question 14
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During vertebrate development, all embryos exactly look the same during the very early stages of development.

Select one:
a. Embryology
b. None of the above
c. Contrivances
d. Vestigial Structures and Organs
Question 15

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Evolutionary biologist aims to comprehensively understand what causes evolution (microevolution) and explain the history of all life forms on
Earth specifically, the relatedness of any species to other species (macroevolution)

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 16
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Geologic time, the extensive interval of time occupied by the geologic history of Earth.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 17
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Growth and Development explains that living things use energy to grow by metabolizing compounds by cellular respiration or
photosynthesis. Organisms also undergo different life stages, which follow a systematic process from birth to maturity.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

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He argued that the concept of "spontaneous generation" might had happened due to a "primeval soup" of different organic molecules that
could be created in a non-oxygen atmosphere due to the action of sunlight.

Select one:
a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Thomas Gold
c. Alexander Oparin
d. Francesco Redi
Question 19

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He demonstrated a simple experiment to disprove such popular belief at that time that maggots originate from rotting meat.

Select one:
a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Francesco Redi
d. Thomas Gold

Question 20
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He intricate organic molecules ascended slowly from a pre-existing, non-organic repetition platform of silicate crystals in solution.

Select one:
a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Thomas Gold
d. Graham Cains-Smith 

Question 21
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He wanted to find out whether a sterile nutrient broth could spontaneously generate microbial life.

Select one:
a. Francesco Redi
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Thomas Gold
d. Graham Cains-Smith

Question 22
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Homeostasis refers that living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which are different from their environment.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE
Question 23

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In order to construct phylogenies that show evolutionary relationships, systematists consider the synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies as
well as the homoplasies.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 24
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Input from new technologies provides new information in the similarities and differences among taxa that leads to revision, lumping, or
splitting a taxon.

Select one:
a. New taxa
b. Misinterpreted data
c. New data
d. Bio data

Question 25
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In the cladistic system, organisms are classified exclusively on the basis of how recent are the descendants from their common ancestor.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Question 26
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Irritability (response to stimuli) discuss that all organisms are very sensitive to different stimuli-may it be environmental or physiological. This
may refer to any form of response or movement to stimuli in its own volition.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE
Question 27

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It is a method that groups organisms based on their shared derived characters.

Select one:
a. Spontaneous Generation
b. Cladistics system
c. The Clay Hypothesis
d. "Primordial Soup" Theory

Question 28
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It occurs during the process of DNA replication. These may be caused by a number of factors, which include but not limited to radiation,
viruses, or carcinogens (cancer-causing materials).

Select one:
a. Mutation
b. Recombination’s
c. Gene Flow
d. Genetic Drift

Question 29
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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck proposed that if an animal could develop a particular characteristic in its lifetime, then this trait could be passed on
to their offspring and its succeeding generations.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE
Question 30

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Living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which are different from their environment.

Select one:
a. Irritability
b. Cellular complexity
c. Homeostasis
d. Growth and Development

Question 31
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Living things use energy to grow by metabolizing compounds by cellular respiration or photosynthesis. Organisms also undergo different life
stages, which follow a systematic process from birth to maturity.

Select one:
a. Irritability
b. Cellular complexity
c. Homeostasis
d. Growth and Development

Question 32
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One of the major rules in nomenclature, as guided by ICBN and ICZN, are names should be written in Latin.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
Question 33

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Since natural selection occurs on the genetic variation that is presently available in a population, the "best" alternatives cannot constantly be
found.

Select one:
a. Vestigial Structures and Organs
b. Embryology
c. Contrivances
d. None of the above

Question 34
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Stated are the important principle of the Hardy-Weinberg about equilibrium, EXCEPT?

Select one:
a. Equilibrium allows biologists to determine whether evolutionary agents are already operating together with the probable agents (as
evidenced by the pattern of nonconformity from the equilibrium).
b. The biological definition of a species is a population that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
c. The equilibrium shows the distribution of genotypes to be anticipated for a population at genetic equilibrium at any value p or q.
d. Agent acts to change them, allele frequencies should not change from generation to generation.

Question 35
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Taxa is connected one at a time until all the taxa is included in the tree. When added, each taxon is joined to the tree to minimize the number
of character state changes (Lipscomb, 1998).

Select one:
a. Monophyly
b. The Hennig Tree
c. Polyphyly
d. The Wagner Tree
Question 36

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The application of binomial nomenclature is now governed by various internationally agreed codes of rules.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Question 37

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The discovery of tiny filamental structures that are similar to bacteria called nanobes in deep rocks in the early 90s supported such claim.

Select one:
a. Alexander Oparin
b. Graham Cains-Smith
c. Francesco Redi
d. Thomas Gold

Question 38
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The DNA that was isolated is then amplified using the polymerase chain reaction. This technology is actually about the principle that you can
exponentially multiply a single copy of your DNA.

Select one:
a. DNA Sequencing
b. DNA Isolation
c. Sequence alignment
d. Amplification of the DNA
Question 39

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The following are living terrestrial vertebrates EXCEPT one

Select one:
a. crocodiles
b. humans
c. turtles
d. rabbit

Question 40
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The geologic time scale is the “calendar” for events in Earth history. It subdivides all time into named units of abstract time called—in
descending order of duration—eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 41
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The goal of modern systematists is to construct a monophyletic taxon, which would reflect true evolutionary relationships by including all
descendants of a single common ancestor.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE

Question 42
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The most common example of selection in human population is lactose intolerance or the inability to metabolize lactose from the lack of the
required enzyme lactose in the digestive system.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
Question 43

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The most direct evidences that evolution had occurred are the fossil records.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Question 44

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The most popular experiment that had attempted to refute this theory about life's origin would be the classical experiment of Alexander
Oparin.

Select one:
a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Question 45
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The obsolete idea of this described as the formation of living organism without arising from a similar organism.

Select one:
a. "Primordial Soup" Theory
b. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
c. Spontaneous Generation
d. The Clay Hypothesis

Question 46
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The obsolete idea of this described as the formation of living organism without arising from a similar organism.

Select one:
a. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
b. "Primordial Soup" Theory
c. The Clay Hypothesis
d. Spontaneous Generation
Question 47

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This hypothesis suggests that the first molecules of life might have met on clay, whose surfaces not only concentrated these organic
compounds together, but also helped organize them into patterns.

Select one:
a. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
b. Spontaneous Generation
c. The Clay Hypothesis
d. "Primordial Soup" Theory

Question 48
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This model suggests that life did not begin on the surface of the earth but instead in the porosity of its crust.

Select one:
a. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
b. The Clay Hypothesis
c. Spontaneous Generation
d. "Primordial Soup" Theory

Question 49
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This theory hypothesized that possible conditions on the primitive Earth allows the onset of chemical reactions that leads to the formation of
other complex organic compounds using simple inorganic substances.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
c. "Primordial Soup" Theory
d. Spontaneous Generation
Question 50

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Which of the following have a very rapid life cycle and can produce millions of new generation of new bacteria every 24 hours.

Select one:
a. bacteria
b. fungi
c. plankton
d. fossils

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