General Education - SCIENCE
General Education - SCIENCE
General Education - SCIENCE
2. An ant colony stores food in the summer, defends itself by stinging enemies and invades a competing ant colony and steals larvae and use
them as new workers. What is the term to best describe how this species copes with everyday life?
3. What are the thin structure essential for cytokinesis, amoeboid movement and changes in cell shape?
5. In a flame test, the presence of boron in a solution is evident by what color of flame?
7. What are the hormones responsible for plant growth, promoting auxillary bud growth and apical dominance?
8. Which of the following is the CORRECT name for the compound MnF3?
A. Algae C. Grasshopper
B. Fern D. Moss
10. Polysaccharides, triglycerides, polypeptides and nucleic acids are classified as _______.
A. Carbohydrates C. Phopholipids
B. Acids and bases D. Macromolecular
11. Which of the following is a measure of pressure, defines as one newton per square meter?
A. Pascal C. Milliliter
B. Atomic Units D. Poise
12. A metric carat ia a unit of mass for measuring gemstones. It is equivalent to ________.
A. 1, 000 mg C. 2 kg
B. 200 mg D. 100 mg
A. Prokaryotes C. Magnoliidae
B. Fungi D. Protozoa
14. Science provides knowledge through disciplined observation. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of scientific assertion?
15. Damage to DNA that is not repaired and then replicated can result in genetic disorders.
A. Mutation C. Embryology
B. Pathology D. Speciation
A. Crocodile C. Turtle
B. Walrus D. Maya Bird
17. How are bats able to navigate in the dark without bumping into anything?
A. They emit sound waves whose returning vibrations can detect the presence of objects
B. They are able to fluoresce in the dark
C. They have supersonic eyesight
D. They can disappear
18. This demonstrated the feeding connections between all life forms.
19. One instance of taking away the life of another person without due process is ____________.
20. 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. Capsid C. Virions
B. lambda bacteriophage D. Capsomeres
22. Air, flood and water are essential elements in human existence. Carried by the wind, polluted air called ________________falls to earth
poisoning fish and destroying vegetation.
A. Hurricane C. Typhoon
B. El Nino D. La Nina
24. When the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, it is summer and when the sun shines all the time both day and night, what is this called?
25. The Kyoto protocol, which requires countries to reduce greenhouse emission, is a practice that advocates _________.
26. Ecosystem is the relationship between the physical and biological environments in a certain plain. Among desert ecosystems, the world’s
largest ecosystem is ______________.
A. Sahara C. Tian shan
B. Sonoran D. Namib
27. The Philippines lies in the ____________, an area where many volcanoes are active.
28. The energy source which is abundant in the Philippines but still not fully developed is the?
A. Gas C. Sea
B. Sun D. Mineral
A. Proteins C. Nucleotides
B. Lipids D. Carbohydrates
31. Air like food and water is an essentail element in human existence. Carried by the wind, polluted air called ______ falls to earth poisoning
fish and destroying vegetation.
A. El Niño C. La Niña
B. Greenhouse rain D. Acid rain
33. What is the molecule that allows plants to capture energy from sunlight?
A. Carbohydrates C. ATP
B. Chlorophyll D. Oxygen