Name: Angela D.

Gotladera
Grade and Section: 9-Perseus Teacher: Mrs. Precious Q. Guillermo
General Mathematics and Chemistry
1. The metallurgical process in which a metal is obtained in a fused state is called:
Answer: smelting
Explanation:
Smelting is a process for extracting usable ore from mixed deposits where people find
ore bound with other metals, rock, and extraneous material. In the smelting process,
people heat the material with an agent to trigger a chemical reaction. Although people
often refer to smelting as another form of melting, simply melting material is not enough.
The chemical reaction is necessary to force the desired ore to precipitate out, and it may
be helpful to add a flux to bind with particulate materials, forming slag, a mass of
unwanted material that will settle to the bottom of the furnace where people do their
smelting.

2. The sum of five consecutive odd integers must be:

A. Odd but not necessarily divisible by 5
B. Divisible by 3, but not divisible by 5
C. Divisible by 5, but not necessarily by 10
D. Divisible by 25
Answer: C
Solution:
First odd integer (2x + 1) + Second odd integer (2x + 3) + Third odd integer (2x +5) +
Fourth odd integer (2x + 7) + Fifth odd integer (2x + 9) = 10x + 25
5(2x+5) → since 5 is a factor → c)
3. What it the first metal used by man?
Answer: Copper
Explanation:
Copper was the first metal used by man after stone and bone tools. Though in
Harappan civilization, they used bronze ,and neolithic stage came after it but in world
context copper is the first metal used by early man. Gold may also be found, but it's not
so common and it's too soft to make tools from.

4. If the product of 15 consecutive integers is 0, what is the greatest possible sum of these
integers?
A. 0 B. 14 C. 105 D. 210
Answer: C
Solution:
0 × 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 × 7 × 8 × 9 × 10 × 11 × 12 × 13 × 14 = 0
0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 = 105 → C

5. The hottest part of the gas flame is known as:

Answer: Non-luminous flame
Explanation:
Non-luminous flames are the ones that burn blue. These flames have access to as
much oxygen as they could possibly use, so they can burn very efficiently. All of the
carbon that gets used can be turned into CO2, so there's actually no soot. Because
luminous flames don't burn as efficiently as non-luminous ones, they don't produce as
much energy. This means that the non-luminous flames have a lot more energy than
luminous ones, and their flames are actually hotter. This is why the luminous ones look
 yellow and the non-luminous ones look blue. Hotter flames burn blue and (relatively)
cooler ones burn yellow.

6. A farmer has 87 rows of mango trees with 48 trees in a row. He expects each tree to
produce an average of 29 crates. How many crates of mangoes does the farmer expect
from his trees?
A. 90 204 B. 121 108 C. 121 104 D. 121 112
Answer: C
Solution:
87 × 48 × 29 = 121 104 → C

7. The most commonly used bleaching agent is:

Answer: chlorine
Explanation:
Chlorine (Cl 2 ). was discovered by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774
which marked the beginning of the modern era of bleaching. Chlorine is a side product.
Subsequent chlorine bleaching of the brown pulp gives a product that can be used for the
manufacture of writing and printing paper. Unfortunately, organic compounds in the pulp
are both oxidized and chlorinated, yielding small quantities of organochlorine
compounds, including Chlorine dioxide, Sodium hypochlorite, calcium hypochlorite, etc.
It is also said that it is capable of joining with practically every element.

8. Anne and Lucy have the same birthday. When Anne was 30, Lucy was 36. How old was
Lucy when Anne was twice her age?
A. 24 B. 20 C. 12 D. 6
Answer: D
Solution:
36 – x = 2 (30 – x)
36 – x = 60 – 2x
x = 24 years ago and Anne was 6 → D

9. The method of concentrating the ore which makes use of the difference in density
between ore and impurities is called:
Answer: Levigation
Explanation:
Levigation is the process of grinding an insoluble substance to a fine powder, while
wet. The material is introduced into the mill together with water, in which the powdered
substance remains suspended, and flows from the mill as a turbid liquid or thin paste,
according to the amount of water employed.

10. How many possible outcomes are there if three six-sided dice are tossed?
A. 6 B. 12 C. 18 D. 216
Answer: D
Solution:
There will be 216 outcomes. 6 × 6 × 6 = 216 → D
11. Find the product of a number and its reciprocal
Answer: 1
 Solution:
(n)(1/n)→ 1

12. Which term of the arithmetic sequence 2, 5, 8... is equal to 227?

Answer: 76
Solution:
The first term a1 is 2 and the common difference is equal to: 5 - 2 = 8 - 5 = 3
Hence using the formula for the nth term, an = a1 + (n - 1)d to the term equal to 227, we
can write the equation:
227 = 2 + (n - 1)3
Solve the above for n
n - 1 = (227 - 2) / 3 = 75 and n = 76
The 76th term is equal to 227.

13. The luster of a metal is due to:

Answer: Presence of Free electrons
Explanation:
Metals are shiny because metals contain free electrons that vibrate when they come in
contact with light. When the electrons vibrate, they produce their own light. This is
reflected back and is what creates the shiny, lustrous appearance of metal.

14. The most abundant rare gas in the atmosphere is

Answer: Argon
Explanation:
Argon is the third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, at 0.934%
(9340 ppmv) more than twice as abundant as water vapor (which averages about 4000
ppmv, but varies greatly), 23 times as abundant as carbon dioxide (400 ppmv), and more
than 500 times as abundant as neon (18 ppmv). Argon is the most abundant noble gas in
Earth's crust, comprising 0.00015% of the crust. Nearly all of the argon in Earth's
atmosphere is radiogenic argon-40, derived from the decay of potassium-40 in the Earth's
crust.

15. Find all zeroes of the polynomial P(x) = x3 - 3x2 - 10x + 24 knowing that x = 2 is a zero
of the polynomial.
Answer: 4, -3, 2
Solution:
divide P(x) by (x - 2) to obtain x2 - x + 12
P(x) = (x2 - x + 12)(x - 2)
= (x - 4)(x + 3)(x - 2) : factor the quadratic term
the zeroes are : 4 , -3 and 2

16. Find the constant k so that the system of the two equations: 2x + ky = 2 and 5x - 3y = 7
has no solutions.
Answer: -6/5
Solution:
Determinant = -6 - 5k
when determinant is equal to zero (and equations independent) the system has no
solution: -6 - 5k = 0 :
solve for k : k = -6/5

17. The heat required to raise the temperature of body by 1 K is called:

Answer: Thermal capacity
Explanation:
The specific heat capacity of a substance is the amount of energy needed to change the
temperature of 1 kg of the substance by 1°C. Different substances have different specific
heat capacities
18. The law which states that the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid is proportional to its
partial pressure is
Answer: Henry's law
Explanation:
Henry's law is one of the gas laws formulated by William Henry in 1803 and states:
"At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and
volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium
with that liquid."

19. If x is an integer, what is the greatest value of x which satisfies 5 < 2x + 2 < 9?
Answer: 3
Solution:
< 2x + 2 < 9 : given
3/2 < x < 7/2
The greatest integer value of is 3 (the integer less than 7/2)

20. The metallurgical process in which a metal is obtained in a fused state is called:
Answer: smelting
Explanation:
Smelting is a process for extracting usable ore from mixed deposits where people find
ore bound with other metals, rock, and extraneous material. In the smelting process,
people heat the material with an agent to trigger a chemical reaction. Although people
often refer to smelting as another form of melting, simply melting material is not enough.
The chemical reaction is necessary to force the desired ore to precipitate out, and it may
be helpful to add a flux to bind with particulate materials, forming slag, a mass of
unwanted material that will settle to the bottom of the furnace where people do their
smelting.

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

1. Charged molecules are separated based on varying rates of migration through a solid
matrix when subjected to an electric field. This technique is known as
Answer: gel electrophoresis
Explanation:
Gel electrophoresis is a laboratory method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA,
or proteins according to molecular size. Ingel electrophoresis, the molecules to be
separated are pushed by an electrical field through a gel that contains small pores.

2. Mimicry is a form of predation wherein the mimic bears superficial resemblance to

another species. What type of mimicry is exhibited when the mimic resembles and shares
the anti-predation trait of a successful species, such as the one seen between the monarch
and viceroy butterflies?
Answer: Mullerian
Explanation:
Mullerian mimicry is a form of mimicry in which two or more noxious animals
develop similar appearances as a shared protective device, the theory being that if a
predator learns to avoid one of the noxious species, it will avoid the mimic species as
well.

3. It is the dinoflagellate responsible for releasing the toxins which caused a massive fish
kill along the East Coast of the U.S. back in the 1990s. It is also known by the name of
“cell from hell” due to its life cycle characterized by its unique 24 stages.
Answer: Pfiesteria piscicida
Explanation:
 Pfiesteria piscicida is a dinoflagellate species of the genus Pfiesteria that some
researchers claim is responsible for many harmful algal blooms in the 1980s and 1990s
on the coast of North Carolina and Maryland. It was called the "Cell from Hell" in many
media reports. The species epithet piscicida means "fish-killer". Early research suggested
a very complex life cycle of Pfiesteria piscicida with up to 24 different stages, spanning
from cyst to severalamoeboid forms with toxic zoospores. Transformations from one
stage to another depend on environmental conditions such as the availability of
food. However these results have become controversial as additional research has found
only a simple haplontic life cycle with no toxic amoeboid stages and amoeba present on
attacked fish may represent an unrelated species of protist.

4. Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. Which type
of speciation can result in genotypic and/or phenotypic divergence when a physical
barrier splits the original population into two geographically isolated populations?
Answer: Allopatric
Explanation:
Allopatric speciation (from the ancient Greek allos, "other" + Greek patris,
"fatherland") or geographicspeciation is speciation that occurs when biological
populations of the same species become vicariant, or isolated from each other to an extent
that prevents or interferes with genetic interchange.

5. A certain group of proteins assist in the folding of other proteins. What are proteins from
this group called?
Answer: Chaperonin
Explanation:
Chaperonins are proteins that provide favourable conditions for the correct folding of
other proteins, thus preventing aggregation. Newly made proteins usually must fold from
a linear chain of amino acids into a three-dimensional form.

6. A blot involves biomolecules serving as probes for detecting other types of biomolecules.
This certain blot involves DNA oligonucleotide probes serving to detect specific
sequences of DNA on an electrophoresis gel. What is it called?
Answer: Southern Blot
Explanation:
A Southern blot is a method used in molecular biology for detection of a specific
DNA sequence in DNA samples. Southern blotting combines transfer of electrophoresis-
separated DNA fragments to a filter membrane and subsequent fragment detection
by probe hybridization.

7. It is a collection of many clones possessing different DNA fragments from the same
organisms bound to vectors
Answers: Genomic library
Explanation:
A genomic library is a collection of the total genomic DNA from a single organism.
The DNA is stored in a population of identical vectors, each containing a different
insert of DNA. In order to construct a genomic library, the organism's DNA is extracted
from cells and then digested with a restriction enzyme to cut the DNA into fragments of a
specific size. The fragments are then inserted into the vector using DNA ligase. Next, the
vector DNA can be taken up by a host organism - commonly a population of Escherichia
coli or yeast - with each cell containing only one vector molecule. Using a host cell to
 carry the vector allows for easy amplification and retrieval of specific clones from
the library for analysis.

8. Who coined the term Biotechnology?

Answer: Karl Ereky
Explanation:
Károly Ereky (October 20, 1878 – June 17, 1952) was a Hungarian agricultural
engineer. The term 'biotechnology' was coined by him in 1919. He is regarded by some as
the "father" of biotechnology.

9. It is the formation of root and shoots on a callus tissue.

Answer: Organogenesis
Explanation:
In plants, organogenesis, which is simply the process of forming new organs, occurs
continuously and only stops when the plant dies. In the shoot, the shoot apical meristems
regularly produce new lateral organs (leaves or flowers) and lateral branches. In the root,
new lateral roots form from weakly differentiated internal tissue (e.g. the xylem-pole
pericycle in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana). In vitro and in response to specific
cocktails of hormones (mainly auxins and cytokinins), most plant tissues can de-
differentiate and form a mass of dividing totipotent stem cells called a callus. De novo
organogenesis can then occur from those cells. The type of organ that is formed depends
on the relative concentrations of the hormones in the medium.

10. The phase of mitosis which is associated with the formation of the nuclear envelope, is
Answer: telophase
Explanation:
Telophase (from the Greek τέλος, "end" and φάσις (phásis), "stage") is the final stage
in both meiosis and mitosisin a eukaryotic cell. During telophase, the effects of prophase
and prometaphase (the nuclear membrane and nucleolus disintegrating) are reversed.
Two daughter nuclei form in each daughter cell, and phosphatases de-phosphorylate the
nuclear lamins at the ends of the cell, forming nuclear envelopes around each nucleus
from components of the parent cell'snuclear envelope.