Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V – Bicol
Division of Masbate
Aroroy West District
Tinigban National High School
Tinigban, Aroroy, Masbate

1st QUARTER SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 9 (SET A)

SY: 2021-2022
Name: _____________________________________________ Score: _______________
Grade and Section: _________________________________

General Instruction.
1. Read the questions carefully.
2. Shade the letter of the best answer on the separate sheet provided.
3. Do not write anything on the test paper.
I. Multiple Choice. Read carefully and encircle the letter of the best answer.
1. It is the process that delivers oxygen to where it is needed in the body and removes carbon dioxide.
A. Inhaling B. Breathing C. Exhaling D. Digesting
2. Which of these are the major parts of the circulatory system?
A. Trachea, heart and blood C. Heart, blood and veins
B. Heart, blood and blood vessel D. Alveoli, blood vessel and blood
3. What happens on the air pressure inside the lungs when you breathe in?
A. It becomes higher C. It stays the same
B. It becomes lower D. It becomes zero
4. It is the life support structure that nourishes your cells with nutrients from the food you eat and oxygen from
the air you breathe.
A. Circulatory system C. Skeletal system
B. Respiratory system D. Endocrine system
5. What is being described in this situation: a common, continuing respiratory condition that causes difficulty
breathing due to inflammation of the bronchi.
A. Asthma C. Hypertension
B. Bronchitis D. Stroke
6. What do you call the center of the chromosome?
A. Chromatin C. Nucleosome
B. Chromatid D. Heterochromatin
7. Which is the right way of organizing chromosomes, if we try to zoom it in?
A. Chromatin- chromosome- DNA-Nucleosome
B. DNA-chromosome-nucleotide-chromosome
C. Chromosome- chromatin- nucleosome- DN
D. Nucleosome- chromatin- chromosome- DNA
8. It locks the entrance and exit of DNA.
A. H1 histone C. Nucleosome
B. Histones D. DNA linkage
9. What type of mutation inserts a pair of nucleotides to a wild type DNA strand?
A. Transition C. Insertion
B. Transversion D. Deletion
10. A mutation where a child ages rapidly in two years,
A. Gigantism C. Dwarfism
B. Progeria D. Alexandria Genesis
11. When one characteristic is more strongly inherited than another characteristic, what is it said to be?
A. Dihybrid C. Recessive
 B. Dominant D. Monohybrid
12. Which is the human sex chromosome for male?
A. XX C. XY
B. YY D. XZ
13. How many chromosomes does a human gamete have?
A. 12 C. 46
B. 23 D. higher for eggs and sperm
14. Why does lactation only expressed in females?
A. It is a sex-linked trait C. It is a sex-influenced trait.
B. It is a sex-limited gene D. It is connected with the chromosome
15. Which is NOT an example of an endangered species?
A. Tarsier C. Dodo bird
B. Mouse deer D. Monkey-eating eagle
16. The amount of sunlight in a forest ecosystem determines the kind and population of plants and trees that could
thrive and survive to maintain balance in the said ecosystem. Which refers to the “amount of sunlight” as
mentioned above?
A. Biodiversity C. Carrying capacity
B. Limiting factor D. Population density
17. What can you infer about an ecosystem with high species diversity?
A. Its food webs are relatively simple.
B. It has a greater number of successful species and more stable ecosystem.
C. The change in the environment would probably have quite serious effects on it.
D. The environment is quite stressful with relatively few ecological niches and a few organisms are really
well adapted to that ecosystem.
18. Which is an sex-linked gene?
A. Hypertrichosis pinnae Auris
B. Colorblindness
C. Hemophilia
19. Pattern Which of these gases is primarily needed in the lungs?
A. Nitrogen C. Oxygen
B. Carbon dioxide D. Hydrogen
20. It is made up of the organs in the body that help us to breathe.
A Circulatory System C. Skeletal system
B. Respiratory System D. Endocrine system
21. Which of the following part of the respiratory system is responsible for the gas exchange in the lungs?
A. Bronchi C. Trachea
B. Bronchioles D. Alveoli
22. What is associated with air pollution?
A. Global warming
B. Destruction of the ozone shield
C. Acid deposition
D. All of the above
23. What happens on extinction?
A. Population of species begin to decline rapidly
B. Population has become so low
C. Occurs when the last member of that species dies
D. When the population is stable.

24. Which of the following is a beneficial mutation?

A. Alexandria’s Genesis
B. Cri du chat
C. Albinism
D. Cystic fibrosis
25. It is any change in the DNA sequence of a cell.
A. Transition
B. Mutation
C. Insertion
D. Deletion
 26. A DNA strand has the following bases: C G T A G A. What will be the bases on complementary strand?
A. G C T A G C C. T C G A T C
B. G C A T C T D. C G T A C A
27. A dominant nonbald man marries a nonbald woman. What is the chance that their child will be bald?
A. 0% . C. 75%
B. 25% D. 100%
28. Given the following bases: T T C G A C – A A G C T G, what will become of the strand if the third pair
undergoes transition? A normal man had a child with a normal female, but is a carrier of the gene. What is the
chance that their child will be color-blind?
A. 0% C. 75%
B. 25% D. 100%
29. Given the following bases: T T C G A C – A A G C T G, what will become of the strand if the third pair
undergoes transition?
A. T T T G A C – A A A C T G
B. T T G G A C – A A C C T G
C. T T G A C – A G C T G
D. T T C G A C – A A G C T G
30. How will transversion happen in the first pair, given the following bases: G C T A G T- C G A T C A.
A. C C T A G T- G G A T C A
B. T C T A G T- A G A T C A
C. G C T A G T- C G A T C A
D. C T A G T- G A T C A.
II. Modified True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is true. If it is false, change the highlighted word to make it
right.
1. Left atrium accepts blood from the body.
2. Circulatory and Respiratory system can work without each other.
3. Mouse deers are already extinct.
4. Population is a group of living things within a certain area that are all of the same species.
5. Sex limited traits are generally autosomal
6. Albinism is characterized with a cry like that of a cat.
7. A bacterial infection spread through inhaling tiny droplet from the coughs and sneezes of an infected person is
Tuberculosis.
8. Coronary circulation is the movement of blood from the heart through the lungs and back to the heart.
9. A female has an XY chromosome.
10. A carrier of the a hemophilia gene has a genotype : XXh

Prepared by:
CRYSTEL C. CARMEN
Teacher I
Noted:
JOSE ARIEL A. ROSAS
School head