2nd Semester Grade 12 STEM

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Allogamy occurs when the gametes which join together during fertilization come from two
different individuals.
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Almost all prokaryotes undergo a type of asexual reproduction called Fragmentation.
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Asexual reproduction involves a single parent. It results in offspring that are genetically
identical to each other and to the parent.
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Budding occurs when a parent cell forms a bubble- like bud. The bud says attached to the
parent cell while it grows and develops.
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During sexual reproduction, two haploid gametes join in the process of budding to produce a
diploid cycle.
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Fraternal twins also known as monozygotic happens when two eggs have been released by
the mother and then fertilized by two sperm.
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Internal fertilization occurs when a sperm cell and egg cell join outside of the body.
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Meiosis is the type of cell division that produces gametes.
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Plants and fungi used spores as a means of sexual reproduction.
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Reproduction is the process by which plants and animals produce offspring.
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Adaptive mechanisms are also utilized by plants to increase or decrease growth in organs
that directly or indirectly participates in nutrient acquisition.
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b. TRUE ✓
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An axon is divided into several branches and ends in asynaptic terminal where a small gap
is present called ____________.
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a. neurotransmitters
b. dendrites
c. neuron
d. synapse✓
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Assimilation of oxidation-reduction reactions, participates in various enzymatic processes.
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a. Zinc
b. Sulfur ✓
c. Potassium
d. Phosphorus
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Enzyme activation (eg., nitrate reductase, catalase, and ribonuclease), chlorophyll synthesis.
Select one:
a. Boron
b. Nitrogen
c. Molybdenum ✓
d. Nickel
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External pouch of skin that contains the testes. Because the scrotum is located outside of
the abdomen, it can reach temperatures that are lower than that of internal body structures.
Lower temperatures are necessary for proper sperm development.
Select one:
a. Epididymis
b. Testes✓
c. Penis
d. Scrotum
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Fibrous, muscular canal leading from the cervix (opening of the uterus) to the external
portion of the genital canal.
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a. Fallopian tubes
b. Ovaries
c. Clitoris
d. Vagina✓
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Glands that produce fluid to nurture and provide energy for sperm cells. Tubes leading from
the seminal vesicles join the ductus deferens to form the ejaculatory duct.
Select one:
a. Seminal Vesicles✓
b. Prostate Gland
c. Bulbourethral or Cowper's Glands
d. Urethra
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It belong to the Division Bryophyta characterized by nonvascular plants with embryos that
develop within multicellular female sex organs called archegonia.
Select one:
a. Mosses✓
b. Ferns and Mosses
c. Ferns
d. Flowering plants
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It is the basic unit of the nervous system, is composed of a nucleus from the cell body and
two types of extension.
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a. neuron
b. Dendrites
c. neurotransmitters
d. axon✓
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It often occurs singly to transmit signals neurons and/or effector cells.
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a. axon
b. neuron
c. Dendrites✓
d. neurotransmitters
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Junction of the brain and spinal cord; it coordinates autonomic processes and motor
responses. The cerebellum, which is an extension of the hindbrain, assists in regulating
motor responses.
Select one:
a. Hindbrain✓
b. Forebrain
c. None of the above
d. Midbrain
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Located near the- anterior end; can be divided into two distinct regions: (1) the
diencephalon, which contains the thalamus and Metencephalon hypothalamus; and (2) the
telencephalon for directing an appropriate response to all sensory information.
Select one:
a. Midbrain
b. Forebrain ✓
c. Hindbrain
d. None of the above
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Major constituent of organic plant material; assimilation of oxidation-reduction reactions.
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a. Nitrogen
b. Potassium
c. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen ✓
d. Iron
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Produces the female sex cells (contained in the ovules)
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a. Sepals
b. Stamens
c. Nectary
d. Ovary✓
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Responsible for the visual processing and some motor control.
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a. Midbrain✓
b. Forebrain
c. None of the above
d. Hindbrain
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Structural component of the cell wall and cell membrane; counter-ion in the vacuole.
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a. Magnesium
b. Manganese
c. Copper
d. Calcium ✓
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The male parts of the flower (each consists of an anther held up on a filament).
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a. Stamens✓
b. Anthers
c. Nectary
d. Sepals
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The production of sperm cells is known as spermatogenesis.
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a. TRUE✓
b. FALSE
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This sense organ is most useful in animals as this allows locating food, marking territory,
identifying offspring, and attracting a potential mate.
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a. Smell✓
b. Hearing
c. Touch
d. Taste
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Water splitting system for photosystem ll; stomatal opening regulation.
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a. Manganese
b. Iron
c. Sulfur
d. Chlorine✓
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Animals defend themselves from pathogenic microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, and
other pathogens in the environment.
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During respiration, glucose converted to about 38 ATP and every ATP produced contains
7.3 kcal/mol.
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False
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Ectotherms (cold-blooded) use internal sources of temperature to regulate their body
temperatures.
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In acquired immunity, lymphocyte provides a specific defense against pathogens. The body
detects the foreign object or pathogen by certain molecules attached on the outside of
invading pathogens or by other foreign objects.
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False
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The human body maintains a fasting blood glucose concentration of 50- 70 mg per 100 mL'
of blood. If the level increases (hyperglycemia) or decreases (hypoglycemia), the system
activates its regulatory mechanisms to return the glucose level to the set point.
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The optimum temperature for life forms to exist is 0-100°C. Below 0°C, reactions occur too
slowly, and above 100°C there is too much heat that destroys various biological structures.
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The pituitary gland is divided into the posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis)and anterior
pituitary (adenohypophysis).
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False
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There are three major kinds of defense mechanism developed.
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There are two lines of defense in innate immunity. The first line of defense is the skin and
mucous membrane that lines the digestive, respiratory, and genitourinary tract, which acts
as a barrier on invading pathogens.
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False ✓
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Thermoregulation refers to endothermy to ectothermy. Endotherms (warm- blooded
organisms) create most of their heat via metabolic processes.
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True
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Component of bone and teeth, involved in blood clotting, muscle, and nerve function for
animals.
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a. Calcium✓
b. Magnesium
c. Copper
d. Manganese
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Acid-base balance, water balance, and neural function for plants.
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a. Phosphorus
b. Potassium✓
c. Sulfur
d. Zinc
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Energy transferring process for photosynthesis and respiration (ADP-ATPsynthesis):
structural component of phospholipids, nucleic acids, coenzymes, and nucleotides for plants.
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a. Phosphorus✓
b. Zinc
c. Sulfur
d. Potassium
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It is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular
gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next.
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a. venn diagram
b. pedigree chart
c. periodic table✓
d. gantt chart
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It is the presence of two or more genetically different cell lines in an individual, all derived
from a single zygote.
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a. gonadal mosaicism
b. Somatic mosaicism
c. Mosaicism✓
d. None of the above
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It refers to transcription silencing of the maternal allele whereas paternal imprinting implies
that the paternal allele is inactivateD.
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a. none of these
b. Y-linkage
c. maternal imprinting✓
d. Mosaicism
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The hypothalamus is the main region that integrates both the endocrine and nervous
functions in vertebrates.
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a. FALSE
b. TRUE✓
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All embryos exactly look the same during the very early stages of development.
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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.
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False✓
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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)
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True✓
False
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Homeostasis refers that living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which
are different from their environment.
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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.
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False
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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.
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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.
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False
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The most direct evidences that evolution had occurred are the fossil records.
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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.
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There are two lines of defense in innate immunity. The first line of defense is the skin and
mucous membrane that lines the digestive, respiratory, and genitourinary tract, which acts
as a barrier on invading pathogens.
Select one:
a. TRUE✓
b. FALSE
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There are two lines of defense in innate immunity. The first line of defense is the skin and
mucous membrane that lines the digestive, respiratory, and genitourinary tract, which acts
as a barrier on invading pathogens.
Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE✓
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Thermoregulation refers to endothermy to ectothermy. Endotherms (warm- blooded
organisms) create most of their heat via metabolic processes.
Select one:
a. TRUE✓
b. FALSE

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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.
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a. Homeostasis
b. Growth and Development
c. Irritability
d. Cellular complexity✓
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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. Irritability ✓
b. Cellular complexity
c. Homeostasis
d. Reproduction
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Any change in the allele frequencies in a population due to random sampling is called?
Select one:
a. Recombination’s
b. Genetic Drift✓
c. Gene Flow
d. Mutation
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A result of migrating individuals that breed in a new location is called?
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a. Gene Flow ✓
b. Recombination’s
c. Genetic Drift
d. Mutation
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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. Contrivances
b. Embryology
c. None of the above
d. Vestigial Structures and Organs✓
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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. Genetic Drift
b. Gene Flow
c. Mutation
d. Recombination’s✓
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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. Reproduction ✓
b. Cellular complexity
c. Homeostasis
d. Irritability
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During vertebrate development, all embryos exactly look the same during the very early
stages of development.
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a. None of the above
b. Embryology ✓
c. Vestigial Structures and Organs
d. Contrivances
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Geologic time, the extensive interval of time occupied by the geologic history of Earth.
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a. TRUE ✓
b. FALSE
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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. Gene Flow
c. Recombination’s
d. Genetic Drift
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Living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which are different from their
environment.
Select one:
a. Growth and Development
b. Irritability
c. Cellular complexity
d. Homeostasis✓
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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. Homeostasis
b. Irritability
c. Growth and Development✓
d. Cellular complexity
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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. Contrivances ✓
b. None of the above
c. Vestigial Structures and Organs
d. Embryology
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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. Agent acts to change them, allele frequencies should not change from generation to
generation.
✓✓✓c. The biological definition of a species is a population that can interbreed and
produce fertile offspring.✓
d. The equilibrium shows the distribution of genotypes to be anticipated for a population at
genetic equilibrium at any value p or q.
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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. FALSE
b. TRUE✓
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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. The Clay Hypothesis
d. Spontaneous Generation✓
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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. "Primordial Soup" Theory
c. The Clay Hypothesis✓
d. Spontaneous Generation
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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. Spontaneous Generation
b. The Clay Hypothesis
c. "Primordial Soup" Theory
d. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis✓
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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.
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a. "Primordial Soup" Theory ✓
b. The Clay Hypothesis
c. Spontaneous Generation
d. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
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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.
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a. fungi
b. bacteria✓
c. fossils
d. plankton
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All embryos exactly look the same during the very early stages of development.
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False
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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.
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True
False✓
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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:
True ✓
False
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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:
True ✓
False
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Homeostasis refers that living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which
are different from their environment.
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True ✓
False
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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.
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True ✓
False
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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:
True ✓
False
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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:
True ✓
False
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The most direct evidences that evolution had occurred are the fossil records.
Select one:
True
False✓
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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.
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False✓
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Algae, Fungi, and Plants - International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
(ICZN).
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True
False✓
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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.
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True ✓
False
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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.
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False
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A taxonomist uses different characters to determine recency of common descent.
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False✓
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Carl Linne, a Swedish botanist, created this system of nomenclature in 1735 as Systema
naturae.
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False
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In order to construct phylogenies that show evolutionary relationships, systematists consider
the synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies as well as the homoplasies.
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False
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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.
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True ✓
False
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One of the major rules in nomenclature, as guided by ICBN and ICZN, are names should be
written in Latin.
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The application of binomial nomenclature is now governed by various internationally agreed
codes of rules.
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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.
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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.
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a. TRUE✓
b. FALSE
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Carl Linne, a Swedish botanist, created this system of nomenclature in 1735 as Systema
naturae.
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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.
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a. Thomas Gold
b. Graham Cains-Smith
c. Francesco Redi
d. Alexander Oparin✓
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He demonstrated a simple experiment to disprove such popular belief at that time that
maggots originate from rotting meat.
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a. Francesco Redi✓
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Thomas Gold
d. Graham Cains-Smith
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He intricate organic molecules ascended slowly from a pre-existing, non-organic repetition
platform of silicate crystals in solution.
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a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Thomas Gold
c. Alexander Oparin
d. Graham Cains-Smith✓
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He wanted to find out whether a sterile nutrient broth could spontaneously generate
microbial life.
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a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Louis Pasteur✓
c. Francesco Redi
d. Thomas Gold
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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.
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a. Bio data
b. New data✓
c. Misinterpreted data
d. New taxa
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It is a method that groups organisms based on their shared derived characters.
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a. "Primordial Soup" Theory
b. Cladistics system✓
c. Spontaneous Generation
d. The Clay Hypothesis
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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).
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a. The Wagner Tree✓
b. The Hennig Tree
c. Monophyly
d. Polyphyly
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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.
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a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Francesco Redi
d. Thomas Gold✓
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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.
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a. DNA Sequencing
b. DNA Isolation
c. Sequence alignment
d. Amplification of the DNA✓
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The most direct evidences that evolution had occurred are the fossil records.
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a. TRUE✓
b. FALSE