NS1 Prefinal Exam

nd
2 Semester, AY 2022-2023

Review the following:

1. Key events before and during Christ Era

2. Genetically Modified Organisms

GMOs in Food and Agricultural Industries
 Pest Resistance
 Virus Resistance
 Herbicide tolerance
 Cosmetic preservation
 Increase growth rate
GMOs in Non – food Crops and Microorganisms
 Flower production
 Paper production
 Pharmaceutical productions
 Bioremediation
 Enzyme and drug production
 GMOs in the medical field

3. Food Chain and Food Web

Food Chain
- Linear illustration on how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from one
creature to another.
- The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
Food Web
- Series of interconnected food chain in a single ecosystem.
- Each living thing in an ecosystem is a part of multiple food chains.
- Series of feeding relationships because the majority of animals consume a wide variety of food.

4. Schools of Thought about Happiness

 Materialism - Led by atomists Democritus and Leucippus – the first materialists
 Hedonism - School of thought led by Epicurus.
 Stoicism - led by Epicurus, Stoics espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to distance
oneself and be apathetic.
 Theism - People find meaning of their lives using God as the fulcrum of their existence.
 Humanism - For humanists, man is literally the captain of his own ship.
5. Megadiverse Countries
 Australia  Madagascar
 Brazil  Malaysia
 China  Mexico
 Colombia  Papua New Guinea
 Ecuador  Peru
 United States  Democratic Republic of Congo
 Philippines  South Africa
 India  Venezuela
 Indonesia

6. Acronyms
 IUCN - International Union for Conservation
of Nature
 CEEH - Center for Ecogenetics and
Environmental Health
 FAO - Food and Agricultural Organization
 FDA - Food and Drug Administration
 GMO - Genetically Modified Organisms
 HGP - Human Genome Project
 URL - Uniform Resource Locators
 PRSV – Papaya Ringspot Virus
 NCBP - National Committee on Biosafety of
the Philippines?
 IFR -
 HGP - Human Genome Project
 WHO – World Health Organization
 PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
 UNESCO - United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
 DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid
 GDP - Gross domestic product
7. Terminologies
 Biodiversity - The variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine and
aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part.
 Ecosystem – The assemblage of living and nonliving elements contained within a boundary
 Ecology - Study of interrelations and interactions of organisms with their biotic and abiotic environment.
 Species
- The basic units of biological classification
- Are the normal measure of biodiversity
- Grouped together in families based on shared characteristics
 Splicing -
 World of Forms - the only real entities
 Endemism - a term used in biology to talk about the distribution of a taxon limited to a small geographic area
and which can therefore be found naturally in this place.
 World of Matter - things are changing and impermanent
 Cuneiform - one of the oldest forms of writing known
 Gene - the basic physical and functional unit of heredity
 Trophic Level - the position of an organism in the food chain
 Types of Biodiversity
- Genetic diversity
- Species diversity
- Ecological diversity
 Hieroglyphics - a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient
Egyptian monuments.
 Eudaimonia - the condition of human flourishing or of living well
 Keystone Species - an organism that helps define an entire ecosystem