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Diagnostic Test in General Biology 2

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the questions properly and choose the best answer.

8. What is the basic unit of all living

1. Who demonstrate the Theory of things?
Evolution through natural selection? a. DNA
a. Robert Hooke b. Blood
b. Charles Darwin c. Cell
c. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek d. Membrane
d. Jean- Baptiste Lamarck
9. Who are the scientists that contributed
2. In relation to scientific method, what he development of Cell Theory?
do you call a suggested explanation? a. Hooke, Schwann, Schleiden
a. Observation b. Leeuwenhoek, Schwann, Virchow
b. Objective c. Brown, Schwann, Virchow
c. Hypothesis d. Schleiden, Schwann, Virchow
d. Experiment
10. What do you call the phospholipid
3. What is considered as a widely bilayers of the cell?
accepted hypothesis that stands the test a. Cell membrane
of time? b. Proteins
a. Evaluation c. Nucleus
b. Theory d. Plasma membrane
c. Conclusion
d. Inference 11. Which of this is not a multicellular
organism?
4. What is the methodology for learning a. Bird
that applies knowledge? b. Amoeba
a. Scientific method c. Human
b. Prediction d. Fish
c. Theory
d. Experiment 12. What is the difference between plant
and animal cell?
a. Osmosis is only true in plant cell
5. What is the title of the book that was b. Spindle fibers are only from
written by Charles Darwin? animal cell
a. The Selfish Gene c. Cell wall is present only in plant
b. The Ancestor’s Tale cell
c. Origin of Species d. Vesicles are only present in plant
d. The Mismeasure of Man cells

6. What is the branch of biology that 13. What are the two types of endoplasmic
deals with the study of cells both plant reticulum?
and animal? a. Big and Small ER
a. Genetics b. Tall and Small ER
b. Biotechnology c. Rough and Smooth ER
c. Oncology d. Black and White ER
d. Cytology
14. Where is the site of protein synthesis?
7. What is of the blueprint of life? a. Golgi apparatus
a. DNA b. Ribosomes
b. RNA c. Mitochondria
c. blood d. Nucleus
d. brain
 24. What structure regulates the opening
15. What is the collective term for and closing of stomata?
different filaments of proteins that a. Epidermal cells
gives shape within the cell? b. Cell wall
a. Cell membrane c. Guard cells
b. Plasma membrane d. Cell membrane
c. Ribosomes
d. Cytoskeleton 25. What organelle regulates the
transportation of molecules between
16. What composes cell wall? nucleus and cytoplasm?
a. Protein a. Nuclear envelope
b. Enzymes b. Nuclear poresNucleus
c. Cellulose c. Nucleolus
d. Membrane
26. Who discovered principle of genetic
17. What organelle is called “powerhouse segregation via pea plant?
of the cell”? a. William Bateson
a. Mitochondria b. Gregor Mendel
b. Nucleus c. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
c. Cell membrane d. Charles Darwin
d. Ribosomes
27. What do you call the units of heredity?
18. Where does the photosynthesis takes a. DNA
place? b. RNA
a. Cytoskeleton c. Cell
b. Chlorophyll d. Genes
c. Chloroplast
d. Cell wall 28. What pair of chromosomes present in
female?
19. What organelle contains genetic a. WW chromosomes
material (DNA) of eukaryotic b. XX chromosomes
organisms? c. YY chromosomes
a. Mitochondria d. ZZ chromosomes
b. Ribosomes
c. Nucleus 29. What pair of chromosomes present in
d. Chloroplast male?
a. XY chromosomes
20. What organelle is made up of strings b. WY chromosomes
of DNA?
c. ZY chromosomes
a. Nucleolus
d. XX chromosomes
b. Golgi apparatus
c. Cytoskeleton 30. What structures of nucleic acid and
d. Chromatin protein that carries genetic information
in a form of genes?
21. What organelle consists of double- a. Chromosomes
layered plasma membrane? b. Chromatin
a. Nuclear pores c. Chlorophyll
b. Nucleolus d. Chloroplast
c. Nuclear envelope
d. Nucleus 31. What do you call the practice of
classifying organisms?
22. What is the storage cell of plants? a. Domain
a. Meristem b. Order
b. Parenchyma c. Genus
c. Microtubule d. Taxonomy
d. Collenchyma
32. What is used to name an
23. What is the universal energy source of
organism where the first word is
cells and living things?
genus and the second word is the
a. Glucose
species of the organism?
b. Carbon
a. Taxonomy
c. DNA
b. Binomial nomenclature
d. ATP
c. Phylum
d. Kingdom
 d. Phosphorus

33. What organism obtain food by

absorbing materials in their body? 41. Which is the following is not a genetic
a. Protista disorder?
b. Eubacteria a. Alzheimer’s disease
c. Fungi b. Deterioration of muscles
d. Archaebacteria c. Arthritis
d. Huntington
34. What kingdom is classified as
microorganism neither animals or 42. Chromosomes do not usually occur in
plants? pair in?
a. Eubacteria a. Fertilized egg
b. Protista b. Gametes
c. Archaebacteria c. Somatic cells
d. Fungi d. Body

35. What do you call the smallest
biological particle that surrounded by
capsid?
a. Viruses
b. Bacteria
c. Fungi
d. Protista
36. Which of the following will be
eliminated in the basic steps in
science-based knowledge using
scientific method?
a. Defining and Identifying problem
b. Listing and disseminating
information
c. Providing a final conclusion and
Theory
d. Formulating and testing hypothesis
43. Which parental pair could produce a
colorblind female?
a. Heterozygous normal vision
mother and normal father
b. Heterozygous normal vison
mother and colorblind father
c. Normal vision mother and
colorblind father
d. Homozygous normal vision
mother and normal father
44. Which process involved in the
production of mRNA using DNA
template?
a. Transcription
b. Translation
c. Replication
d. Gene manipulation

45. Which is the most basic process in the

37. What type of the cells in the body is science of Taxonomy?
capable of communicating with other a. Classifying organisms
cells by transmitting signals through
b. Identifying organisms
synapses? c. Understanding organisms
a. Alveoli d. Naming organisms
b. Nephrons
c. Neurons 46. How are mitochondria chloroplasts
d. Squamous cell similar to bacteria?
a. They are larger from normal cells
38. Which of the following undergoes b. They are bounded by a single
replication during cell division? membrane
a. Centromeres c. They lack ribosomes
b. Cell membrane d. They contain limited amount of
c. Chromosomes genetic material
d. Cytoplasm
47. How can large molecule like fats enter
39. Which of the following metabolic the cell?
processes takes place in cytoplasm? a. Pinocytosis
a. Krebs cycle b. Phagocytosis
b. Electron transport chain c. Osmosis
c. Citric acid cycle d. Diffusion
d. Glycolysis
48. Why is it that all people having
40. Which of the following is the preferred Down’s syndrome have the same
source of energy for cells? appearances?
a. Proteins a. They have the same number of
b. Carbohydrates chromosomes
c. Water b. They are inherited by ancestors
 c. They contain the same RNA d. Having large brain
d. During cell division, mutation
happens
50. Why HIV is classified as retrovirus?
a. It synthesizes RNA from its
49. Why human classified as Homo proteins
sapiens? b. It synthesizes proteins from DNA
a. Ability to use tool c. It synthesizes RNA from its DNA
b. Having limbs d. It synthesizes DNA from its RNA
c. Intellectual capacity

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

Jim Rohn

Good luck!

ARVIN U. PACOMA
SPST 1 – General Biology 2 Teacher