Let Reviewer (Bio)-CBRC b.

Kingdom monera
c. Kingdom Protista
1. Which of the following qualities is NOT true
d. Kingdom Fungi
among considerations that humans are the
9. How does energy first enter our living Planet
masters of other living organisms, as well as of
Earth?
the nonliving on earth?
a. As energy manufactured through
a. Most developed species
photosynthesis
b. Most dominant species
b. As molecular energy from the biosphere
c. Most intelligent species
c. As radiant energy from the sun
d. Most reproductive species
d. As heat energy from outer space
2. Of the following, which is not among the uses of
10. There are main food rich in proteins that
the Phylogenetic Tree that explains the
provide energy for man, but this is NOT an
genealogical history of groups of organisms?
example of these foods:
a. Visualize point at which species diverge
a. Butter
b. Provide chronology of evolutionary
b. Nuts
events
c. Fish
c. Trace common ancestry
d. Meat
d. Estimate the age of living things
11. There are main foods rich in carbohydrates that
3. In the hierarchy of biology taxonomy, if domain
provide energy for man, but this is NOT an
is at the top, which is at the bottom?
example of these foods:
a. Kingdom
a. Bread
b. Species
b. Meat
c. Genus
c. Rice
d. Family
d. Cereals
4. The domains included in Wooese’s in 1990
12. Among the following, which is considered
classification are:
Prokaryotic organisms which lack a true nucleus
i. Archaea
in their cells?
ii. Bacteria
a. Animals
iii. Chromista
b. Bacteria
iv. Eukarya
c. Fungi
a. I,ii,iv
d. Protest
b. I,ii,iii,iv
13. According to the level of classification of living
c. Ii,iii,iv
things, what next lower/ smaller grouping
d. I,ii,iii
compromises a kingdom?
5. Which of the following is an example of a useful
a. Phyla
function for bacteria?
b. Order
a. Can clean up an oil spill by digesting
c. Species
hydrocarbon in petroleum
d. Class
b. Can synthesize new form of heavy
14. Under the six-kingdom system of the living
metals
world, how are cellular forms with specialized
c. May cause foul-smelling odor when it
eukaryotic cells ability to locomote (sponges,
invades the outer dermal layer
worms, insects etc.) classified?
d. May be pathogenic and cause human
a. Fungi
disease
b. Plantae Protista
6. Which is the most basic process performed in
c. Animalia
the science of Taxonomy?
d. Protista
a. Naming organisms
15. Whose works marked the beginning of modern
b. Identifying organisms
taxonomy that developed a scheme of
c. Classifying organisms
classification with hierarchical categories based
d. Understanding organisms
on the physical and behavioral characteristics of
7. Which protest causes malaria?
organisms?
a. Plasmodium
a. Charles Darwin
b. Staphylococcus
b. Ernest Mayr
c. Euglena
c. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
d. Kneallhazia
d. Carolus Linnaeus
8. Under the Five Kingdom System recognized by
16. Among the following, which is considered
most biologist today, where do the true
Eukaryotic organisms which possess a true
bacteria, bacteria-like organisms, and the blue-
nucleus in their cells?
green algae belong?
a. Blue-green algae
a. Kingdom plantae
 b. Bacteria d. Culture medium
c. Archaen 26. Humans reproduce when an ovum is combined
d. Animal and plants with a sperm leading to the development of an
17. Under the six kingdom system, how are embryo. This form of reproduction is called:
multicellular forms with specialized eukaryotic a. Asexual reproduction
cells e.g. mosses and ferns but no ability for b. Fertilization
locomotion classified? c. Binary fission
a. Protista d. Budding
b. Animalia 27. Which of the following animals does NOT need
c. Plantae hard-shell to protect its fertilized eggs?
d. Fungi a. Lizard
18. The process of synthesis occurs not only in b. Eagle
plants, but is also in one of the following: c. Duck
a. Archaea d. Frog
b. Viruses 28. True of noble gases:
c. Green fungi a. Classified as group 7 in the periodic
d. Algae table of elements
19. Which organism is an example of a fungus? b. Able to react with or any other atoms
a. Algae c. Includes hydrogen and argon
b. Entamoeba d. Includes neon and helium
c. Euglenoids 29. In the human life cycle, what process maintains
d. Yeast chromosome number once a spermatozoon
20. Among the following animals in the class unites with ovum during fertilization?
mammalian, which are categorized as a. Oogenesis
Carnivora? b. Mitosis
a. Elephants c. Meiosis
b. Pigs d. Spermatogenesis
c. Monkeys 30. What is the process in the human sexual
d. Cats reproduction wherein the zygote undergoes a
21. Among organisms which is capable of series of cell division needed for the growth and
regeneration when cut into parts? maturation of the fetus?
a. Yeast a. Mitosis
b. Molds b. Spermatogenesis
c. Bacteria c. Oogenesis
d. Sea star d. Meiosis
22. What is NOT an example of ways of asexual 31. Which of the following is an isomer of glucose?
reproduction through cellular division in plants? a. Fructose
a. Saprophytes generation b. Maltose
b. Formation of a bud c. Pentose
c. Germination of runners in grasses d. Ribose
d. Stem cutting 32. What functional group differentiate chitin from
23. Among eukaryotes, in what cell organelle does cellulose?
the electron transport chain occur? a. Amino group
a. Nucleus b. Phosphate group
b. Mitochondria c. Carboxyl group
c. Vacuoles d. Hydroxyl group
d. Golgi apparatus 33. The rise in the temperature of Earth’s
24. What type of asexual reproduction occurs when atmosphere due to increased greenhouse gases
a new organism develops from an outgrowth as is called
exemplified corals? a. Microwave effect
a. Fission b. Summer phenomenon
b. Sexual reproduction c. Heat wave
c. Budding d. Global warming
d. Fertilization 34. What is an organism that is capable of making
25. An organism has a natural environment where its own food by producing complex organic
it lives and thrives. This is called its: compound from simple substance using light or
a. Habitat chemical energy?
b. Country a. Parasites
c. Migration pattern b. Commensals
 c. Autotrophs 43. Among the elements useful for the body, which
d. Heterotrophs is the most abundant mineral in the body that
35. Which of the following statements about aids in the blood-clotting process?
meiosis is true? a. Iron
a. It allows organisms to repair tissue b. Potassium
b. It allows organisms to grow c. Calcium
c. It allows organisms to reproduce d. Fluorine
asexually 44. Animals that are only able to eat animal meat
d. It allows organisms to promote genetic are called
diversity a. Obligate carnivores
36. What is true of the cell theory? b. Omnivores
a. Cells come from preexisting theory c. Selective carnivores
b. Cell membrane dictate data needed for d. Facultative carnivores
protection 45. True of junction proteins:
c. Some organisms are not composed of a. Enable to discriminate between one’s
cells own cell and cell from foreign
d. Cytoplasm regulates what goes in and organisms
out of the cell. b. Assists cell-to-cell adhesion and
37. What is an example under the order carnivora? communication
a. Lemur c. Form an electrical connection between
b. Termites 2 cells
c. Polar bears d. Participate in enzymatic metabolic
d. Koala bears reactions
38. In the case of babies born through In vitro 46. Which of the following undergoes replication
Fertilization or IVF, how are IVF babies during cell division?
commonly referred to? a. Cell membrane
a. Blue babies b. Chromosome
b. Rock-a-bye babies c. Centromeres
c. Baby boomers d. Cytoplasm
d. Test tube babies 47. Which of the following is a type of potential
39. True of a functional group: energy?
a. Specific combination of bonded atoms a. Energy in motion
that has consistent chemical properties b. Mechanical energy
b. They are usually non polar c. Solar energy
c. Does not affect the reactivity of the d. Kinetic energy
organic molecule to which it is attached 48. A mango tree is planted beside a sampaguita
d. A particular functional group can react plant in a garden. They demonstrate the
in varied forms depending on the following relationship
carbon skeleton a. Commensalism
40. A tiger that hunted and ate deer is an example b. Mutualism
of c. Compensation
a. Parasite and host d. Predation
b. Prey and predator 49. Which of the following is true of cell transport?
c. Commensalism a. Homeostasis is maintained because the
d. Mutualism plasma membrane controls the flow of
41. Which is the simplest atom that is made up of 1 particles in and out of the cell
proton and 1 electron? b. Passive transport requires energy for it
a. Carbon to occur
b. Oxygen c. Active transport is exemplified by
c. Helium facilitated diffusion
d. Hydrogen d. The plasma membrane does not allow
42. What are the hormones responsible for plant any molecule to freely pass and enter
growth, promoting axillary bud growth and the cells
apical dominance? 50. The flow of water in our planet as it undergoes
a. Cytokinis and Gibberelins the processes of evaporation, condensation,
b. Cytokinis and Auxins precipitation, runoff and subsurface flow is
c. Auxins and Gibberelins called
d. Auxins and abscisate a. Snow cycle
b. Rain cycle
 c. Water cycle c. Pioneer species
d. Hale cycle d. Serial occupants
51. Which of the following is an acellular infectious 59. An ant colony stores food in the summer,
agent not capable of undergoing cell division, defends itself by stinging enemies and invades a
but instead requires a living cell in order to competing ant colony and steals larvae and use
replicate? them as them as new workers. What is the term
a. Protozoa to best describe how this species cope with
b. Bacteria everyday life?
c. Fungus a. Ecological success
d. Virus b. Ecological niche
52. True enzymes c. Ecological defeat
a. An enzyme needs to change its size in d. Environmental habitation
order to accommodate in a chemical 60. True of radiant energy
reaction a. Lower-energy wavelengths are
b. The substance acted on by enzyme is screened out by the ozone
called a product b. It exists in a wide range of wavelengths
c. The included fit model explains the c. Only very short wavelengths such as
binding between two enzymes to form gamma rays are capable of
a production photosynthesis
d. Proteins that decrease the amount of d. Among several wavelengths of visible
energy needed for a chemical reaction lights, energy content is highest for red
to occur light
53. What happens to a plant cell placed in a 61. What is the maximum total ATP energy yield for
hypotonic solution? every glucose molecule metabolized?
a. The plant will shrivel a. 34
b. No effect on the plant cell b. 38
c. The plant will develop a thickened wall c. 32
d. The plant cell will swell d. 36
54. True of photosynthesis 62. What transport system in plants moves water
a. It is a type of redox reaction from its roots to the top of the tree.
b. Oxygen and water combines to a. Photosynthesis
produce carbohydrates b. Transpiration
c. Carbon dioxide is oxidized from fructose c. Capillarity
d. Water gains a carbon atom forming d. Respiration
carbon dioxide 63. Of the following which is not an example of
55. Which of the following metabolic process takes biome?
place in the cytoplasm? a. Forest
a. Citric acid cycle b. Lake
b. Electron transport chain c. Grassland
c. Glycolysis d. Desert
d. Krebs cycle 64. How are original or primary forest referred to?
56. Just like humans and animals, plants relate with a. Virgin forest
one another. What relationship occurs when a b. Green forest
mango tree is planted beside a sampaguita c. Rainforest
plant in a garden? d. Verdant forest
a. Predatism 65. What is the substrate that enters the citric acid
b. Competition cycle?
c. Mutualism a. Glucose
d. Commensalism b. Lactate
57. Which organisms are found at the top of the c. Pyruvate
ecological pyramid? d. Acety-A
a. Secondary consumers 66. What is the possible consequence of
b. Primary consumers eutrophication?
c. Producers a. Significantly diminished sea harvest by
d. Tertiary consumers fisherman
58. These are plants or animals that were first to b. Decreased toxicity of bodies of water
populate a previous ecosystem. c. Less turbidity of water
a. Climax community d. Water that is colorless and odor free
b. Early population
67. Which of the following are most likely b. Acid rain
consequences of air pollution? c. Use of oxygen by decaying algae
a. Enriched flora and fauna d. Lowering water level
b. Enhanced cardiovascular endurance 76. A scientist puts nucleotide chains UUU in a test
c. Decreased incidence of cancer tube under conditions allowing protein
d. Exacerbation of lung disease such as synthesis. Soon the test tube is full of amino
COOPD acid phenylalanine. This demonstrates
68. What is the maximum number of ATP produced a. Proteins can only contain 1 type of
by electron transport chain? amino acid
a. 36 b. Uralic is the basis molecule of
b. 38 phenylalanine
c. 40 c. UU is the genetic code of phenylalanine
d. 34 d. Protein synthesis cannot be stimulated
69. What does a virus release into a bacterial cell by vitro
when it infects it? 77. The study and science of heredity is called
a. Viral genomic nucleic acid a. Pathology
b. Viral plasma membrane b. Pediatrics
c. Viral nucleus c. Geriatrics
d. Viral cytoplasm d. Genetics
70. A species lived in a lake. When a dam was 78. What are the four most abundant elements
constructed in the area, a group of fish was found in living matter?
separated and populated a new pond. They a. Nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and
then develop differing characteristics and carbon
became a distinct species. Which of the b. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen
following concepts explain this speciation? c. Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and sulfur
a. Geographical isolation d. Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and
b. Episodic isolation phosphorus
c. Chronoscopic isolation 79. True of Trisomy 21
d. Behavioral isolation a. An abnormality of chromosome
71. What is the Philippine species known as inheritance in which there are 3 copies
Pithecophaga Jefferyl that was listed as an of chromosomes 21
endangered species by the 1975 Convention on b. Also known as the Turner’s syndrome
International Trade of Endangered Species? c. Present with the superior mental
a. Philippine tamarraw intelligence, tall stature and protruding
b. Bohol tarsier eye balls
c. Palawan peacock pheasant d. Results when an individual is missing 3
d. Monkey-eating eagle chromosomes
72. The protein shell of a virus is called: 80. True of essential amino acid:
a. Nucleus a. Obligated to be taken in the diet
b. Nucleic acid because it cannot be produced by the
c. Capsid body
d. Nucleolous b. Can be synthesized by the body if water
73. True of recessive genes: is present
a. Will only have phenotypic expression if c. Least important of all nutrients
present as a homozygous genotype d. Are more important than others
b. Have more superior phenotypic traits 81. The following is true of circulatory system
c. Should be paired with a dominant gene a. It is an open system
for it to be expressed b. Synovial fluid flows through the
d. Will prevent a dominant gene from circulatory system
expressing its phenotype c. It includes the system and pulmonary
74. In what particular step of protein synthesis do circulation
ribosome participate in? d. The main organ is this system is the
a. Translation liver
b. Cell division 82. True of DNA replication:
c. Replication a. DNA replication is said to be non-
d. Transcription conservative
75. What is the natural cause for what is known as b. Replication proceeds only in one
a fish kill in lakes and estuaries? direction
a. Excessive fishing
 c. DNA is translated to give rise to c. Phylogeny
proteins d. Speciation
d. Each new DNA molecule contains one 90. What is produced by the mating or
old and one new strand interbreeding of two closely related species
83. Eula has bacterial pneumonia. What medication namely female horse and a male donkey?
should be given to manage her illness? a. Mare
a. Antibiotics b. Stallion
b. Antiviral c. Mule
c. Analgesic d. Hinny
d. Anti-inflammatory drugs 91. Who was the author of principles of geology
84. An 80-year old man has sudden severe chest who gave evidence that Earth was subject to
pain due to insufficient blood flood to the heart slow but continuous geological cycles of erosion
causing death of cardiac muscles. This condition and uplift?
is called a. Charles Lyell
a. Myocardial infarction b. Charles Darwin
b. Pneumonia c. Charles Lamarck
c. Costochondritis d. Charles Windser
d. Dyspepsia 92. Of the following, which is NOT one of the
85. Which of the following states that in a given reason why Mendel selected garden peas for
species, the amount of adenine is equal to his experiments?
thymine, and the amount of guanine is equal to a. They reproduce at a fast rate
the amount of cytosine? b. They need much caring and cultivating
a. Crick’s law c. They exhibit contrasting traits
b. Franklin’s theory d. Their flowers are structurally adapted
c. Watson’s hypothesis for self-pollination
d. Chargaff’s rule 93. When is a prenatal screening with the use of
86. True to natural selection: DNA technology applied in order to detect
a. Majority of the population will possess congenital metabolic disorders in babies?
unfavorable traits and becomes a. 9 months of the fetus in the womb
maladapted to the environment b. Within 48 hours after delivery
b. The most adapted individuals die and c. Within 36 hours after delivery
becomes extinct d. 8 months of the fetus in the womb
c. Humans choose and breed selected 94. A normal mother and a normal father produced
animals with particular traits to two children, one normal child and one albino
reproduce child. What kind of genes controlled the albino
d. Members of a population have such that he had an abnormal skin
heritable variations pigmentation?
87. A person diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, if a. Mixture of dominant and recessive
not treated adequately, will have the following: genes of Aa
a. Uncontrolled elevated blood sugar level b. Both dominant or AA
b. Insufficient oxygenation of the blood c. Both recessive or aa
c. Uncontrolled elevated blood carbon d. Dominance of recessive over dominant
dioxide genes or aaA
d. Uncontrolled elevated uremic toxins in 95. Gene therapy corrects detectable gene
the blood disorders but this is NOT one of its procedures:
88. True of reproductive cloning: a. Addition of functional cells
a. The goal is to produce organs that are b. Cells extraction from patient
genetically modified c. Reintroduction of corrected cells into
b. Results in an organism genetically patient
distinct from an original organism d. Newborn screening
c. The goal is to produce an organism 96. What is true about herbivores?
genetically identical to the original a. They are main producers in the food
organism chain’
d. Results in production of tissue that can b. They are at the apex of the food chain
be radioactive c. They can be producers if given
89. What is the term for the evolutionary history of adequate water and food
a group of organisms? d. They are only consumers
a. Genetics 97. Which combined tissues are directly involved
b. Systematics when a boy kicks, a frog leaps or bird flies?
 a. Nerves and muscles d. Both aerobic and anaerobic respiration
b. Bones and nerves 102. Rafael completely healthy man and
c. Muscles and bones would like to donate one of his organs as an
d. Blood and muscles altruistic act. Which among the following can be
98. Which of the following pertains to slight donated even when Rafael is still alive without
quantifiable evolutionary modifications within a compromising his overall wellbeing?
population from generation to generation? a. His heart
a. Microevolution b. One of his 2 corneas
b. Artificial selection c. One of his 2 lungs
c. General selection d. One of his 2 kidneys
d. Evolution upheaval 103. Where do producers obtain their
99. Which protest causes malaria? energy?
a. Euglena a. From other producers
b. Plasmodium b. From the consumers
c. Fungi c. From the decomposers
d. HIV d. From the sun
100. Of the following which does not 104. Why do you experience not seeing
characterize the bacteria, which is believed to things clearly for some seconds when you enter
be the earliest life-forms having lived 3.8 million suddenly a well-lighted room after coming from
years ago? a dark room, you?
a. Has nuclear membrane to separate a. The pupils are not adapted to the dark
nuclear materials from cytoplasm b. The eyes are adapted to the light only
b. Made up of prokaryotic cells c. The pupils are not dilated yet
c. Has cell wall made up of protein- d. Light had caused temporary blindness
carbonate complex 105.  What term is used to describe the
d. Has single circular DNA ability to maintain a constant internal
101. What makes it possible for animals to environment?
produce energy for daily work by transferring a. Metabolism
potential energy of glucose to ATP? b. Growth and development
a. Anaerobic respiration alone c. Homeostasis
b. Aerobic respiration alone d. Thermoregulation
c. Neither aerobic nor anaerobic
respiration

106. What is the most common cause of cardiovascular disease?

A.    Fatty deposits in the arteries C.     Lack of sodium in the diet
B.     Inadequate supply of red blood cells D.    Increased heartbeat
107. Which is the smallest unit of life that can survive and reproduce on its own?
A.    Cell C.     Tissues
B.     Organ D.    Population
108. Which region of a vertebrate forebrain is considered with the neutral-endocrine control of visceral
activities?
A.    Cerebellum C.     Hypothalamus
B.     Thalamus D.    Pituitary
109. Which of the following is the building block carbohydrate?
A.    Amino acid C.     Fatty acid
B.     Nucleotide D.    Monosaccharide
110. Why it is necessary men have more red blood cells per cubic millimeter of blood than women?
A.    Man does strenuous activities and need C.     Man waste more blood cells and need
more energy extra
B.     They have bigger physique and need more D.    They are more prone to anemia disorders
blood
111. Which of the following is the building block of protein?
A.    Amino acid C.     Fatty acid
B.     Nucleotide D.    Monosaccharide

112. Where does protein synthesis take place?

A.    Ribosomes C.     Endoplasmic reticulum
B.     Lysosomes D.    Golgi bodies

113. Why are our lips “redder” than our palm?

A.    There is increased blood flow in the lips B.     Lips are heavily keratinized
 C.     Lip epidermis is thinner D.    Many blood vessels are located around the
lips

114. Which of the following cannot be found in prokaryotes?

A.    Cytoplasm C.     Membrane-bound nucleus
B.     Plasma membrane D.    DNA

115. What do we call mutation that is brought about by the earth natural radioactivity?
A.    Continuous
B.     Induced
C.     Lysosomes
D.    Chloroplast
Answer:

1. D 56. B 111. A
2. A 57. D 112. A
3. B 58. C 113. D
4. A 59. B 114. C
5. A 60. B 115. B
6. C 61. B
7. A 62. C
8. B 63. B
9. C 64. A
10. A 65. D
11. B 66. A
12. B 67. D
13. A 68. D
14. C 69. A
15. D 70. A
16. D 71. D
17. C 72. C
18. D 73. A
19. D 74. A
20. D 75. B
21. D 76. C
22. A 77. D
23. B 78. B
24. C 79. A
25. A 80. A
26. B 81. C
27. D 82. D
28. D 83. A
29. C 84. A
30. A 85. D
31. A 86. D
32. A 87. A
33. D 88. C
34. C 89. C
35. D 90. C
36. A 91. A
37. C 92. B
38. D 93. D
39. D 94. D
40. B 95. D
41. D 96. D
42. A 97. C
43. A 98. A
44. A 99. B
45. B 100. C
46. B 101. D
47. C 102. D
48. C 103. D
49. A 104. A
50. C 105. C
51. D 106. A
52. D 107. A
53. D 108. C
54. A 109. D
55. C 110. D