4th PT FINALscience8
4th PT FINALscience8
4th PT FINALscience8
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region III
STO. CRISTO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Guzmanville, Sto. Cristo, City of San Jose del Monte
Tel. No. (044) 7970438 local 1-5 l email Ad; scnhs_2010@yahoo.com
SCIENCE 8
4th PERIODICAL EXAMINATION
Directions: Read and analyze the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the correct
answer.
2. Which enzyme is responsible for breaking down peptides into amino acids?
a. ptyalin b. peptidase c. maltase d. sucrose
3. In which part of the digestive system is chime mixed with pancreatic juice and bile?
a. esophagus b. stomach c. small intestine d. bile
8. Which among the following are biological substances that speed up the digestion
process?
a. peristalsis b. amylase c. chyme d. enzymes
12. What disease may be attributed to sever lack of food nutrients in the body?
a. dermatitis b. scurvy c. pellagra d. rickets
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13. What disease may be attributed to severe lack of food nutrients in the body?
a. malnutrition b. obesity c. scurvy d. diabetes
14. Which of the following is a form of malnutrition that occurs when there is not enough
protein in the diet?
a. berberi c. scurvy
b. pellagra d. diabetes
17. Which among the following is characterized by mild paleness of the skin, decreased
pinkness of nailbeds, and a lack of iron?
a. beriberi b. pellagra c. scurvy d. anemia
19. Which is NOT a good health practice for the digestive system?
a. Observing proper posture when eating. c. Drinking soda everyday
b. Doing a 30-minute daily run d. Chewing food slowly
20. If you experience a burning sensation in the stomach immediately after eating,
what digestive problem are you most probably suffering from?
a. constipation b.lactose intolerance c. peptic ulcer d. GERD
21. Which of the following is the correct sequence of food travel through the digestive
system?
a. esophagus mouth stomach small intestine large intestine
b. mouth small intestine stomach large intestine
c. mouth stomach esophagus small intestine large intestine
d. mouth esophagus stomach small intestine large intestine
22. Christian has diarrhea accompanied by vomiting and dehydration. What digestive
disease could be ailing him?
a. diarrhea b. constipation c. cholera d. qppendicitis
24. In oogenesis, what happens to the polar body produced after the first and second
meiotic divisions?
a. it degenerates c. It becomes a separate oocyte
b. It transforms into ovum d. Nothing happens
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26. What is the last stage of mitosis and referred to as the “reverse prophase:?
a. anaphase c. prophase
b. metaphase d. telophase
27. In what stage of mitosis where the sister chromatids separate and are being pulled
by the spindle fibers?
a. anaphase c. prophase
b. metaphase d. telophase
28. What do you call the process that divides the cytoplasm of a cell ?
a. Meiosis c. cytokinesis
b. Mitosis d. cycle
30. In plant cell, what is created that eventually develops into a cell wall?
a. cell plate b. cleavage furrow c.spindle d. cell
31. If a cell has 14 chromosomes at the start of mitosis, how many chromosomes will
each daughter cell have?
a. 7 b. 14 c. 28 d. 46
33. Which is responsible for the nourishment and development of immature sperm cells?
a. epididymis b. nucleus c. Sertoli cells d. RNA
40. Which is an alternate form of a gene for a particular trait found at the same
location?
a. genotype b. phenotype c. dominant d. allele
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41. Which of the following refers to the different alleles for the same trait?
a. homozygous b. heterozygous c. phenotype d. gene
42. Which of the following refers to the same alleles for the same trait?
a. homozygous c. phenotype
b. heterozygous d. gene
44. Which refers to the physical tra?its of an organism based on the organism’s
genotype?
a. genotype c. dihybrid
b. phenotype d. allele
45. Which of the following is the trait being expressed by an organism and is
represented by a capital letter?
a. genotype b. phenotype c. dominant d. alllele
47. Which diagram is used to show the results of crossing two organisms?
a. monohybrid b. punnet square c. dihybrid d. chart
48. Which of the following is a trait being masked by a dominant trait and is represented
by lower case letter?
a. recessive b. phenotype c. dominant d. allele
50. Which law states that the dominant allele masked the expression of the recessive
allele and the phenotype is the dominant trait?
a. Law of Dominance
b. Law of Segregation
c. Law of Independent Assortment
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by
any created thing but only God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.”
- Blaise Pascal
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