LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS a.

A disease that results to syphilis

ST. JUDE THADDUES REVIEW CENTER (SJTR) b. Immune system attacks own body cells

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES c. Disease that degrades the immune system

d. A hemorrhagic fever
7. If John has a defective liver, which food should he
avoid?
Name: ___________________ Score: ______ a. Lettuce
b. Carrots
INSTRUCTOR: Earshad B. Banjal c. Peanut butter
Contact: 0910 221 7775 d. Steamed rice
8. In order to become a formal theory, a hypothesis
or hypotheses must ______.
DIRECTIONS: Select the correct answer for each of the
a. be absolutely correct and proper
following questions. Mark only one answer for each item
b. be supported by a large body of evidence
by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your c. become a law first
choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO d. be submitted to the State
ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 2 only. 9. Which kind of functional group is found in the DNA?
I. Amine
II. Amide
1. Doctors that care for children are called _______.
III. Hydroxyl
a. Gerontologists
IV. Ester
b. Pediatricians
a. I, II, III
c. Oncologists
b. I, III, IV
d. Pathologists
c. II, III, IV
2. Veda would like to find out if a ball dropped from
d. I, II, III, IV
higher building will be slower than one dropped
10. What are the monomers of proteins?
from smaller building. She timed how many seconds
a. Nucleic acids
it will take for the ball to reach the ground. In the
b. Fatty acids
case, which is independent variable?
c. Monosaccharides
a. Height from which the ball was dropped
d. Amino acids
b. Time it takes for the person holding the ball
11. Which is not a carbohydrate or a sugar molecule?
to go up the building
a. Glucose
c. Time it takes for the ball to reach the
b. Starch
ground
c. Protein
d. The construction material used in the
d. Ribose
buildings
12. The organ that controls our emotions is the ____.
3. Which of the following is an invertebrate animal?
a. Heart
a. Shark
b. Liver
b. Platypus
c. Brain
c. Flatworm
d. Lungs
d. Kangaroo
13. What is the largest internal organ?
4. Which belongs to the Halogen family?
a. Brain
a. Oxygen
b. Lungs
b. Neon
c. Liver
c. Chlorine
d. Large intestine
d. Nitrogen
14. If Parthenogenesis is possible to mammals, what
5. A good example of an inert gas is _____.
would be the result to offspring?
a. Neon
a. Diploid female
b. Hydrogen
b. Haploid female
c. CFC
c. Diploid male
d. Fluorine
d. Haploid male
6. Which best describes HIV-AIDS?
15. Sucrose is mainly found in _______.
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 a. Honey 24. The following objects are the designed to employ
b. Sugar buoyancy principle except a:
c. Dextrose a. Life preserver
d. Milk b. Submarine
16. Crocodiles are most closely related to ______. c. Kite
a. Mammals d. Canoe
b. Birds 25. Which substance cannot cross the placenta from
c. Snakes mother to fetus?
d. Lizards a. Water
17. In the human life cycle, what process maintains b. Oxygen
chromosome number once a spermatozoon unites c. Carbon dioxide
with an ovum during fertilization? d. Nutrition
a. Oogenesis 26. A fatal disease that is common to cattle and sheep
b. Meiosis that can infect humans through eating infected
c. Mitosis meat is _____.
d. Spermatogenesis a. Botulism
18. Who is the Father of Genetics? b. Anthrax
a. Darwin c. Histoplasmosis
b. Mendel d. Tetanus
c. Wallace 27. Which is absent in the early Earth?
d. Lamarck a. Ammonia
19. What is the energy currency of the cell? b. Methane
a. Glucose c. Ozone layer
b. ATP d. Hydrogen
c. Electron transport chain 28. What can be formed in a chemical combination
d. Cell respiration between hydrogen and carbon atoms?
20. Which among the following is a degenerative a. Ammonia
disease? b. Amine
a. Hemorrhagic fever c. Hydroxyl
b. Malaria d. Carboxylic acid
c. Alzheimer’s disease 29. By product of nylon and polyester production
d. Myocardial infarction a. Oil
21. What is the main reason why bones grow in length? b. Gasoline
a. There is calcium and phosphate on the c. Petroleum
surface of bones d. Fossil fuel
b. The cells of the epiphysis continue to divide 30. To raise a rare variety of orchid, _______ is used.
c. There are osteoblasts under the a. Tissue culture
periosteum b. Grafting
d. The osteoclasts digests the ends of bones c. Marcotting
22. The cells that produce the blood cells such as d. In vitro fertilization
platelets are the _______. 31. To grow a variety of orange in another orange
a. Erythrocytes plant, ________ is used.
b. Hematopoiesis a. Grafting
c. Periosteum cells b. Layering
d. Stem cells c. Micropropagation
23. What might be the highest total magnification of a d. Hydroponics
compound light microscope? 32. Hydrilla in an aquarium turns the water with
a. 100x bromothymol blue indicates
b. 200x a. Absorption of carbon dioxide
c. 1000x b. Release of oxygen
d. 2000x c. Making of carbohydrates
d. Presence of ammonia
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33. Why Baguio is cold? 43. Father of Modern Microbiology
a. It is a mountain mass a. Pasteur
b. It is above sea level b. Lister
c. It is above the equator c. Koch
d. It is a valley d. Certes
34. Schlerenchyma supports ______ of a plant. 44. How many ATP to convert pyruvate to glucose?
a. Living part a. 5
b. Non-living part b. 6
c. Flower c. 7
d. Root d. 8
35. Which gives correct analogy? 45. Taxa added to Linnean ranks
a. Gumamela: complete flower a. K and P
b. Moss: vascular plant b. P and C
c. Pine trees: angiosperm c. O and F
d. Fern: seed plant d. G and S
36. Which gives correct analogy? ovum: zygote:: 46. Where are our chromosomes located?
______:_______ a. Nucleus
a. Haploid: diploid b. Nucleolus
b. Diploid: haploid c. Nucleoid
c. 36: 43 d. Cytoplasm
d. Gametes: Somatic 47. Not a part of endomembrane system
37. The DNA of bacteria is in a. Mitochondrion
a. Nucleoid region b. Vacuoles
b. Nucleus c. Lysosomes
c. Nuclear membrane d. ER
d. Ribosomes 48. Nucleic acids, triglycerides, polysaccharides, and
38. It shows closely related organisms from primitive polypeptides are
to the most recent. a. Small molecules
a. Phylogenetic tree b. Carbohydrates
b. Chronogenetic tree c. Macromolecules
c. Family tree d. Hydrophilic
d. Pedigree 49. Not a part of our excretory system
39. It shows traits from parents to offspring. a. Stomach
a. Pedigree b. Skin
b. Genealogy c. Kidney
c. Family picture d. Urethra
d. Gene pool 50. Gumamela is a
40. Anorexia Nervosa a. Complete flower
a. Eat junk foods b. Incomplete flower
b. Refusal to eat c. Staminate
c. Eat too much d. Pistillate
d. Eat too little 51. If two related persons have offspring what might
41. Bulimia result?
a. Eat junk food a. Psychic illness
b. Refusal to eat b. Lost body parts
c. Eat too much c. Cognitive deficiency
d. Eat too little d. Trisomy
42. Father of Marine Microbiology 52. Advantage of close circulatory system
a. Certes a. Blood flows faster in a system of tubes
b. Pasteur b. Blood is colored red
c. Chatton c. Blood will have high carbon dioxide
d. Hooke d. Blood loses more water than open system
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53. Veda would like to find out if a ball dropped from 61. Variable for names and labels
higher building will be slower than one dropped a. Ratio
from smaller building. She timed how many seconds b. Ordinal
it will take for the ball to reach the ground. In the c. Counting
case, which is independent variable? d. Nominal
a. Height from which the ball was dropped 62. Not included is bodily homeostasis
b. Time it takes for the person holding the ball a. Sweating when hot
to go up the building b. Shivering when cold
c. Time it takes for the ball to reach the c. Body temperature of 36 degrees
ground d. Body fluid is pH 14
d. The construction material used in the 63. Carbohydrates usually do not include
buildings a. Carbon
54. The products ATP, NADPH, and Oxygen come from b. Hydrogen
a. Light-dependent c. Oxygen
b. Light-independent d. Nitrogen
c. Glycolysis 64. What macromolecule has CHO?
d. Fermentation a. Carbohydrates
55. What is a karyotype? b. Lipids
a. The set of unique chromosomes after the c. Proteins
two meiotic divisions d. Nucleic acid
b. A display of every pair of homologous 65. Why is virus a parasite?
chromosomes within a cell, organized a. It has a nucleic acid
according to size and shape b. It does not have enzyme for metabolism
c. The collection of all the chromosomes in a c. It cannot produce its own proteins
gamete arranged according to the d. It can only reproduce inside its host cell
mutation incurred 66. The master gland of endocrine is
d. Choices B and C a. Pituitary
56. Not a part of scientific method b. Hypothalamus
a. Guess and then disseminate c. Pancreas
b. Inferring d. Thymus
c. Hypothesis and experiment 67. What the term differentiates the true-bacteria
d. Conclusion from the bacteria-like?
57. Not a fossil fuel a. Eubacteria
a. Biogas b. Archaebacteria
b. Petroleum c. Eukarya
c. Oil d. Protista
d. Charcoal 68. Holes in the leaves are
58. Conducts water and nutrient a. Lenticels
a. Xylem b. Stomata
b. Phloem c. Chlorophyll
c. Guard cells d. Epidermis
d. Sclerenchyma 69. Where in cat can we find its haploid cells?
59. Effect of eutrophication a. Ovarian cell
a. Diminished sea harvest b. Brain
b. Decreased water turbidity c. Kidney cells
c. Clear water d. Skin
d. Water has no odor 70. What food should we avoid for a healthy diet?
60. Variable that show order a. Sweet, oily food
a. Nominal b. Vitamins
b. Ordinal c. Amino acid
c. Cardinal d. Carbohydrates
d. Interval
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71. What relationship exists between Sampaguita and d. From left to right in a periodic table, the
a mango tree? atomic size increases
a. Competition 81. Cause of greenhouse effect, except
b. Mutualism a. Excessive use of detergent
c. Parasitism b. Carbon dioxide emission
d. Commensalism c. Combustion
72. Which source of mutation can least affect the d. Deforestation
semen? 82. Organisms that only eat plants and algae
a. Air a. Herbivores
b. Toxin b. Omnivores
c. Radiation c. Carnivores
d. Chemical d. Decomposers
73. Group of species plus their environment 83. Immunoglobulins are
a. Ecosystem a. Antibody molecules
b. Population b. T cells
c. Community c. B cells
d. Ecology d. Antigen molecules
74. Also called world biome 84. Who separated Monera from Fungi?
a. Biosphere a. Whittaker
b. Community b. Linnaeus
c. Tropical rainforest c. Chatton
d. Coral reef d. Haeckel
75. Cells or group of cells that are able to reproduce 85. Among CHON in living matter, which is the least in
a. Organism proportion?
b. Population a. Nitrogen
c. Species b. Carbon
d. Community c. Oxygen
76. An example of a unicellular organism is d. Hydrogen
a. Amoeba 86. Plastic cups comb, soap, human body are composed
b. Brown algae of
c. Mushroom a. Magnesium sulfate
d. Corals b. Carbon compound
77. Discoverer of virus c. Sodium chloride
a. Ivanowsky d. Iron oxide
b. Beijerinck 87. Who discovered DNA?
c. Stanley a. Watson and Crick
d. Hooke b. Franklin
78. Food with the least carbohydrate c. Chargaff
a. Meat d. Griffith
b. Bread 88. Building blocks of proteins
c. Rice a. Amino acids
d. Cereals b. Monosaccharides
79. Who discovered protons c. Nucleotides
a. Goldstein d. Triglycerides
b. Chadwick 89. Who is the scientist involved in the 5-kingdom
c. Rutherford system?
d. Thompson a. Whittaker
80. What is true of an element? b. Copeland
a. It has 4 valence electrons c. Linnaeus
b. The farther the electrons from the nucleus d. Haeckel
the greater energy it has
c. The electrons are static
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90. If 3,000 Calories is present in a producer, how c. Peptidoglycan
much energy can be passed to the next trophic d. Cell wall
level? 100. Synapse is a space between
a. 300 a. Neurons
b. 30 b. Muscles
c. 3 c. Vertebrae
d. 0.3 d. Ligaments
91. Why is evolution difficult to document? 101. Iron is what kind of material?
a. Soft-bodied organisms are difficult to a. Ferromagnetic
fossilized b. Diamagnetic
b. Darwin died afterwards c. Non-magnetic
c. Organisms are not identified yet d. Non-metallic
d. Most organisms have hard skeletons 102. The following are persons behind Cell theory,
92. Enters the body of the host and does not multiply except
a. Venom a. Virchow
b. Virus b. Schleiden
c. Bacteria c. Schwann
d. Amoeba d. Lyell
93. How are large particles absorbed by the cell? 103. Which is not a product of biotechnology
a. Phagocytosis a. Soy sauce
b. Osmosis b. Yoghurt
c. Diffusion c. Cheese
d. Exocytosis d. Bonsai
94. Hardening of the vessels 104. What should you do to prove that plants do not
a. Atherosclerosis consume soil as they grow?
b. Myocardial infarction a. Grow in a pail of water
c. Stroke b. Weigh the plant before and after
d. Paranoia c. Weigh the soil before and after
95. Definition of a food web d. Transfer the plant in soil beds
a. Interconnected food chains 105. Good use of bacteria
b. Feeding connections a. Probiotics
c. Shows how energy is passed b. Pathogenic
d. All of the above c. Germs
96. Why is radiation not considered as matter? d. Vectors of disease
a. No physical property 106. Widest hot desert ecosystem
b. It has volume a. Sahara
c. It has mass b. Atacama
d. No energy c. Gobi
97. If you want to maintain desired traits, ________ d. Rub Al Khali
should be done. 107. Skin receptors that can feel hot and cold
a. Mass selection a. Mechanoreceptors
b. Interbreeding b. Thermoreceptors
c. Inbreeding c. Pain receptors
d. Hybridization d. Proprioreceptors
98. Tendency of an atom to lose an electron 108. Part of Central Nervous System
a. Ionization energy a. Brain and spinal cord
b. Electron affinity b. Autonomic nerves
c. Electronegativity c. Somatic nerves
d. Anion d. Receptors
99. Covering of crustaceans is made of 109. Composed the lymphatic system
a. Chitin a. Lymphocytes
b. Cellulose b. Leukocytes
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 c. Erythrocytes c. Hydrogen and Sodium
d. Thrombocytes d. Carbon and oxygen
110. Function of proteins 120. Severe kind of dementia
a. Repair and growth a. Alzheimer
b. Energy reserves b. Psychosis
c. Energy source c. Paranoia
d. Genetic material d. Neurosis
111. Has male and female sex organs 121. An animal that does not need an eggshell
a. Bee a. Amphibian
b. Cat b. Reptile
c. Earthworm c. Bird
d. Wolf d. Turtle
112. Example of protist 122. When muscles relax, what happens?
a. Algae a. Myosin and actin overlap but do not touch
b. Plants b. Myosin and actin touch
c. Eubacteria c. Myosin and actin overlap and touch
d. Extremophiles d. Myosin and actin disintegrate
113. How many sperm in 1 drop of semen? 123. Number of bones in the body
a. 100 thousand a. 106
b. 5 million b. 206
c. 1 million c. 306
d. 100 d. 406
114. The subatomic particles are proton, neutron, 124. Biome where there is rainy winter and followed
and by an arid summer
a. Electron a. Chaparral
b. Nucleus b. Desert
c. Valence c. Verdant forest
d. Energy levels d. Tundra
115. Level of measurement that neglect close points 125. Separate algae from plants
a. Discrete a. Haeckel
b. Continuous b. Linnaeus
c. Specific c. Copeland
d. Decimals d. Whittaker
116. Hormone for apical dominance 126. An example animal in the Arctic
a. Auxin a. Walrus
b. Gibberellin b. Penguin
c. Ethylene c. Maya
d. Abscisic acid d. Carabao
117. Hormone for slowing down of growth 127. Which will support the fact of the existence of
a. Auxin global warming
b. Gibberellin a. Changes in the temperature in Sweden in
c. Ethylene the last 1,400 years
d. Abscisic acid b. Increasing glacier size
118. Plant that has a lot of stomata at the upper c. Antarctica is expanding
surface of leaves d. India’s population is number 1 in the world
a. Ipil-ipil 128. Which plant will survive in an environment that
b. Lotus changes?
c. Acacia a. Chrysanthemum
d. Narra b. Aster
119. Elements under Group 8A c. Rose
a. Neon and helium d. Ragweed
b. Argon and lithium 129. Mainly used in artificial flavoring and perfumes
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 a. Alcohol a. Grade 6
b. Ester b. Kindergarten
c. Ether c. Grade 4
d. Carboxyl group d. Grade 5
130. Which are not accepted as organic 139. Which bacterium helps in conserving biological
compounds? system?
a. Oxides and minerals a. Chemical cycler
b. Triglycerides b. Producer
c. Carbohydrates c. Primary consumer
d. Lipids d. Carnivore
131. Second most abundant organic compound in 140. A fatal disease from cattle and sheep which can
Earth be harmful to humans by eating its meat is _____.
a. Cellulose a. Histoplasmosis
b. Starch b. Anthrax
c. Lipid c. Tetanus
d. DNA d. Botulism
132. The cytoplasm is composed of 141. Which place is in Arctic region?
a. 80% water and protein a. New Zealand
b. Lipids and carbohydrates b. Australia
c. 100% water c. Alaska
d. Phospholipids d. Canada
133. Humming birds use ____ as supply for energy 142. Who proposed the theory of spontaneous
a. Glucose and Fructose generation?
b. Lipids a. Aristotle
c. Nucleic acids b. Francesco Redi
d. Proteins c. Lazzarro Spallanzani
134. According to the latest study, crocodile is now d. Louis Pasteur
being compared as similar to _____ rather than 143. He believes that the originating principle of
lizard, iguana, and the like. matter is water.
a. Birds a. Euripides
b. Leopard b. Thales
c. Dolphins c. Aristotle
d. Whales d. Sophocles
135. Food provides your body the nutrients it needs 144. Which of the following environmental problems
for the following function, EXCEPT: is responsible for fish kills in the Philippines?
a. repair a. Deforestation
b. growth b. Pollution
c. maintenance c. Wildlife depletion
d. excretion d. Acid rain
136. Gibberellin is a plant hormone that is 145. The binomial nomenclature was developed by
responsible for _______. _____.
a. Apical dominance a. Charles Darwin
b. Germination b. Ernst Haeckel
c. Leaf abscission c. Carolus Linnaeus
d. Fruit ripening d. Robert Whittaker
137. Which is the mordant in Gram-staining? 146. Which of the following activities uses up the
a. safranin most energy?
b. iodine a. writing
c. crystal violet b. swimming
d. ethanol c. walking moderately
138. Emergent understanding of science begin in d. washing laundry
what grade level?
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147. A type of biome which is located near the a. Plasmodium
equator is _____. b. Bacteria
a. Tropical rainforest c. Virus
b. Tundra d. Pathogen
c. Taiga 150. What can a person acquire by taking in yogurt
d. Boreal forest for maintaining good health?
148. The union of egg and sperm cell in an artificial a. Calcium
environment such as a test tube or laboratory dish b. Antibody
is called _________. c. Protein
a. In vitro fertilization d. Sugar
b. Conception
c. Embryonic induction
d. Internal fertilization
149. The scientific term of a disease-causing agent
is _______.

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