Who is known as the father of Modern Taxonomy and is responsible for coining Homo

sapiens in humans?
a. 
Chalton
b. 
Aristotle
c. 
Linnaeus
d. 
H. Coplan
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Which is an example of non-pathogenic microorganisms?

a. 
Staphylococcus
b. 
Escherichia coli
c. 
Plasmodium
d. 
Probiotics
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A species of fish lived in a lake. When a dam was constructed in the area, a group of fish was
separated and populated a new pond. They then developed differing characteristics and
became a distinct species. Which of the following concepts explain this speciation?
a. 
Behavioral isolation
b. 
Episodic isolation
c. 
Geographical isolation
d. 
Chronoscopic isolation
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What will happen to a plant cell placed in a hypotonic solution?
a. 
The plant cell will swell
b. 
The plant cell will shrink
c. 
Nothing happen to the plant cell
d. 
The plant cell will have thickened wall
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Which of the following biomes has the greatest diversity?
a. 
Arid and Semi-arid
b. 
Grassland and Prairies
c. 
Dipterocarp and Coral Reefs
d. 
Mangroves and Temperate
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The Kyoto protocol which requires countries to reduce greenhouse emission is a practice
that advocates
a. 
ecological destruction
b. 
forest demolition
c. 
sustainable potential
d. 
environmental protection
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Which theory of evolution accounts for snake’s disappearance of legs and development of
giraffe’s long neck?
a. 
Theory of use and disuse
b. 
Theory of natural selection
c. 
Theory of action and interaction
d. 
Theory of chromosomal change
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__________ facilitate anticoagulation.
a. 
Leeches
b. 
Cnidarian
c. 
Earthworm
d. 
Nematodes
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What is the main organ for respiration?
a. 
Esophagus
b. 
nose
c. 
Heart
d. 
lungs
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What are mismatched in ways of biologists and their great contributions to science?
a. 
Robert Koch: Anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera
b. 
Darwin: Theory of Evolution
c. 
Anton Van Leewenhoek: Antiseptic surgery
d. 
William Harvey: Mechanics of human blood circulation
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Who did Albert Einstein call “Father of Modern Science” for use of scientific method in such
experiments as falling bodies, telescope that viewed the moons of Jupiter, and thermometer
based on density of liquids?
a. 
Galileo Galilei
b. 
Francis Bacon
c. 
Erasmus
d. 
Copernicus
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Which of the following states that in a given species, the amount of adenine is equal to thymine,
and the amount of guanine is equal to the amount of cytosine?
a. 
Watson’s hypothesis
b. 
Chargaff’s rules
c. 
Crick’s law
d. 
Franklin’s theory
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Which of the following statements is true of diffusion?
a. 
It is a passive process
b. 
It occurs when molecules move from region of lower concentration to one of higher
concentration
c. 
It requires a membrane
d. 
It requires an expenditure of energy by the cell
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Which of the following is dicot?
a. 
Banana
b. 
Cassava
c. 
Sugar cane
d. 
Coconut
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A stage of decomposition, where the muscles become rigid.
a. 
Livor
b. 
rigor
c. 
algor
d. 
seizure
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Which of the following is a heterotroph?

a. 
Fern
b. 
Algae
c. 
Grasshopper
d. 
Moss
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Which is not a Eukaryocyte
a. 
Plant
b. 
Animal
c. 
Algae
d. 
Bacteria
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Which modified stem is used for the storage of food?
a. 
Potato
b. 
Tomato
c. 
Carrot
d. 
Gabi
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What diagnostic test allows microorganism to grow in a culture to determine the cause of
infectious disease?
a. 
Urinalysis
b. 
Complete blood test
c. 
Microbial culture
d. 
Chest x-RAY
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What is the Philippine species known as Pithecophaga jefferyi that was listed as an endangered
species by the 1975 Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species?
a. 
Philippine tamaraw
b. 
Bohol tarsier
c. 
Monkey-eating eagle
d. 
Palawan peacock pheasant
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True of Trisomy 21:

a. 
An abnormality of chromosomes inheritance in which there are 3 copies of chromosomes 21
b. 
Presents with superior mental intelligence, tall stature and protruding eyeballs
c. 
Results when an individual is missing 3 chromosomes
d. 
Also known as Turner’s syndrome
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Of the following, which is not among the uses of Phylogenetic Tree that explains the
genealogical history of group of organisms?
a. 
Visualize point at which species diverge
b. 
Estimate the age of living things
c. 
Provide chronology of evolutionary events
d. 
Trace common ancestry
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This demonstrates the feeding connections between all life forms.
a. 
Ecosystem
b. 
Food web
c. 
Nutrition cycle
d. 
Food chain
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What development covers the history of Science?
a. 
Empirical knowledge
b. 
Speculative knowledge.
c. 
Logical Knowledge
d. 
Philosophical Knowledge
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How are bats able to navigate in the dark without bumping into anything?
a. 
They have supersonic eyesight
b. 
They can disappear
c. 
They emit sound waves whose returning vibrations can detect the presence of objects
d. 
They are able to fluoresce in the dark
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The process of photosynthesis occurs not only in plants, but also in one of the following:
a. 
Viruses
b. 
Algae
c. 
Green fungi
d. 
Archaea
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The “red tide” phenomenon causes what particular marine organism to be poisonous for
human consumption?
a. 
Algae
b. 
Mollusks
c. 
Earthworms
d. 
Arthropods
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An ant colony stores food in the summer defends itself by stinging enemies and invades a
competing ant colony and steals larvae and uses them as new workers. What is the term to
best describe how this species copes with everyday life?
a. 
Environmental habitation
b. 
Ecological defeat
c. 
Ecological success
d. 
Ecological niche
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What is the pressure exerting on the plasma membrane against the cell wall of bacteria,
fungi and plant cells?
a. 
turgor pressure
b. 
plasma pressure
c. 
Wall pressure
d. 
Osmotic pressure
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Piolo has hemophilia which is an x-factor linked? This means ______
a. 
No siblings will develop hemophilia
b. 
All his brothers and sisters have hemophilia
c. 
he got the disease from his mother
d. 
His children will get hemophilia
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What will happen to a plant cell in a hypertonic solution?

a. 
No effect on the cell
b. 
The plant cell will rupture
c. 
The plant cell will have edema
d. 
The plant cell will shrink
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One instance of taking away the life of another person without due process is.
a. 
salvaging
b. 
Euthanasia
c. 
suicide
d. 
capital punishment
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What are the thin structures essential for cytokinesis, amoeboid, movements and changes in
cell shape?
a. 
Myosin filaments
b. 
Nanofilaments
c. 
Pseudofilaments
d. 
Microfilaments
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Disturbed ecosystem can recover naturally through:
a. 
Ecological revolution
b. 
Population evolution
c. 
Ecological succession
d. 
Biological rebirth
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What is the natural cause for what is known as a fish kill in lakes and estuaries?
a. 
Use of oxygen by decaying algae
b. 
Acid rain
c. 
Lowering water levels
d. 
Excessive fishing
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When canopy and shrubs start to grow in a damaged area, it is called______

a. 
Tertiary succession
b. 
Quaternary succession
c. 
Primary succession
d. 
Secondary succession
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What are the hormones responsible for plant growth, promoting auxiliary bud growth and apical
dominance?
a. 
Auxins and Gibberelins
b. 
Cytokinins and Auxins
c. 
Auxins and Abscisate
d. 
Cytokinins and Gibberelins
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Humans reproduce when an ovum is combined with sperm leading to the development of an
embryo. This form of reproduction is called:
a. 
Budding
b. 
Binary fission
c. 
Asexual reproduction
d. 
Fertilization
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A mango tree planted beside the sampaguita plant in a garden. It demonstrate the following
relationship:
a. 
Mutualism
b. 
Predation
c. 
Competition
d. 
Commensalism
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What is the method which uses microorganism metabolism to clean up toxic wastes?
a. 
Forest denudation
b. 
Filtration
c. 
Bioremediation
d. 
Activism
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Who among the following scientists formulated the “Germ Theory of Disease”?
a. 
Robert Koch
b. 
Edward Jenner
c. 
Adolf Eduard Mayer
d. 
Louise Pasteur
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What type of an asexual reproduction occurs when a new organism develops from an outgrowth
as example by corals?
a. 
Fertilization
b. 
Budding
c. 
Fission
d. 
Sexual reproduction
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These covers the scope of Genetics EXCEPT:
a. 
Life longevity
b. 
Genes
c. 
Genetic variation
d. 
Heredity and genetic information
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What wave patterns of the EEG are active in an awake person? I. Alpha wave II. Beta wave III.
Delta wave IV. Theta wave
a. 
II and III
b. 
II and IV
c. 
I and III
d. 
I and II
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What do you call the organisms who only eats plants and algae
a. 
Carnivore
b. 
Herbivore
c. 
Predator
d. 
Omnivore
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A scientist puts nucleotide chains UUU in a test tube under conditions allowing proteins
synthesis. Soon the test tube is full of the amino acid phenylalanine. This demonstrate
a. 
UUU is the genetic code for phenylalanine
b. 
Uracil is the basic molecule of phenylalanine
c. 
Protein synthesis cannot be stimulated in vitro
d. 
Proteins can only contain 1 type of amino acid
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Decomposition is an important process wherein substance is broken down into organic substance
to be used again. Organisms that are capable of decomposing are
a. 
saprotrophs
b. 
producers
c. 
Primary consumers
d. 
autotrophs
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True of recessive genes:

a. 
Should be paired with a dominant gene for it to be expressed
b. 
Will prevent a dominant gene from expressing its phenotype
c. 
Will only have phenotypic expression if present as a homozygous genotype
d. 
Have more superior phenotypic traits
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Which is not a Eukaryocyte

a. 
Animal
b. 
Bacteria
c. 
Algae
d. 
Plant

Humans’ arm, a bat’s wing, and a dolphin’s flipper are classified as ________
a. 
Addendum structure
b. 
Homologous structure
c. 
Analogous structure
d. 
Vestigial structure
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A scientist puts nucleotide chains UUU in a test tube under conditions allowing proteins
synthesis. Soon the test tube is full of the amino acid phenylalanine. This demonstrate
a. 
UUU is the genetic code for phenylalanine
b. 
Uracil is the basic molecule of phenylalanine
c. 
Protein synthesis cannot be stimulated in vitro
d. 
Proteins can only contain 1 type of amino acid
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What type of an asexual reproduction occurs when a new organism develops from an
outgrowth as example by corals?
a. 
Sexual reproduction
b. 
Budding
c. 
Fission
d. 
Fertilization
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True of recessive genes:

a. 
Should be paired with a dominant gene for it to be expressed
b. 
Will prevent a dominant gene from expressing its phenotype
c. 
Will only have phenotypic expression if present as a homozygous genotype
d. 
Have more superior phenotypic traits
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