Directions: Read the question carefully and then choose the letter of your answer.

Blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet given to you.
1. All of the following actions are part of exhalation EXCEPT:
A. The diaphragm contracts and pulls downward.
B. The pressure within the chest cavity increases.
C. The volume of the chest cavity decreases.
D. The rib cage contracts inward.

2. What happens to the air pressure in your chest cavity when you inhale?
A. stays the same
B. increases
C. decreases
D. fluctuates

3. Which of the following will happen when we breathe in?

A. Diaphragm moves downward and chest cavity expands.
B. Diaphragm moves upward and chest cavity contracts
C. Both diaphragm and chest cavity move downward.
D. Both diaphragm and chest cavity move upward.

4. Heart attack is the stoppage in the flow of blood to the heart. What might be the
best prevention for this kind of disorder in circulatory system?
I. Reduce stress
II. Change diet to less intake of sodium chloride (salt)
III. Eat less food high in fat and cholesterol
IV. Avoid sleep late at night.

A. I, II, & III B. II, III, & IV C. I, II, & IV D. I, III,

& IV

5. You can keep your heart strong by __________________________.

A. doing activities, like playing outside, riding your bike, and swimming
B. eating heart-shaped candy
C. sleeping 18 hours a day
D. smoking

6. When we breathe in, we inhale many gases, including oxygen. What happens to
the gases that the body can’t use?
A. They are absorbed into the digestive system to create energy.
B. They circulate through the body and are disposed of later.
C. They are changed into oxygen by the lungs.
D. They are exhaled.

7. How do the circulatory and respiratory systems work together?

A. The respiratory system digests food and the circulatory system moves blood and
nutrients.
B. The respiratory system takes in oxygen which is transported by the circulatory system.
C. The respiratory system circulates blood while the circulatory system takes in oxygen.
D. The two systems do not work together.

8. How can the heart be compared to a mechanical pump?

A. The heart is a double pump that pumps on every side, the left and the right, to circulate
the blood throughout the body.
B. The blood vessels carry blood all over the body with the aid of heart.
C. The heart let the blood move towards the lungs for gas exchange.
D. The heart beats normally to deliver blood throughout the body.

9. The followings are best ways to prevent diseases in the respiratory and circulatory
systems EXCEPT:
A. Balanced diet
B. Adequate rest
C. Regular exercise
D. Cigarette smoking

10. Drinking a moderate amount of alcohol is considered safe for your heart, what can
happen if people drink more?
A. Too much alcohol lowers LDL (“bad”) cholesterol
B. Too much alcohol can raise triglyceride levels
C. Too much alcohol can raise blood pressure.
D. B and C

11. How does exercise affect the respiratory system?

A. Breathe deeper when exercising, so that brings more carbon dioxide into your lungs
which increases blood flow throughout the body
B. Breathe deeper when exercising, so that brings more oxygen into your lungs which
decreases blood flow throughout the body.
C. Breathe deeper when exercising, so that brings more oxygen into your lungs which
increases blood flow throughout the body.
D. Breathe deeper when exercising, so that brings less oxygen into your lungs which
increases blood flow throughout the body.

12. “Sleep hygiene” refers to the promotion of regular sleep. Which of following can help
you develop healthy sleep habits?
A. Go to bed and get up at the same time every day
B. Cut back on the amount of exercise you get
C. Eat a big meal late in the day
D. Drink liquors

13. Anna’s doctor confirmed that she has heart disease, she was a type of girl that do not
engage herself on any bad activities so his doctor explained the factors why she got the
disease. What do you think are the risk factors for heart disease that cannot be controlled
said by the doctor?
A. Medicine use, vaccines, alcoholism
B. Diet, drug use, smoking
C. Age, sex, heredity
D. None of the above

14. How much exercise is recommended to help prevent heart disease?

A. 10 to 15 minutes on average
B. 90 minutes on average
C. 20 minutes on average
D. 40 minutes on average

15. How does drugs/medicine affect the respiratory system?

A. It messes up the lung and causes skin cancer.
B. It messes up the lung and causes lung cancer.
C. It cleans up the lungs and causes skin cancer.
D. It cleans up the lung and causes lung cancer.
16. If you cross two roan cows, what percentage of the progeny would you expect to be
roan?
A. 10%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 75%

For numbers 17-18.

Chickens with blue feathers are an example of incomplete dominance. When a black and
a white chicken reproduce and neither allele is completely dominant, the result is a blue-
feathered bird.

17. What is the genotype of the blue- feathered bird?

A. BB
B. WW
C. BF
D. BW

18. If a blue- feathered chicken is cross breed with a white chicken, what is the chance/
percentage of having a blue-feathered offspring?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

19. What type of inheritance occurs when two alleles are neither dominant nor recessive,
the alleles are both expressed and show up as a mixture of the two alleles.
A. Heterozygous dominant
B. Incomplete dominance
C. Recessive allele
D. Codominance

20. A pink snapdragon flower is crossed to a white snapdragon. What is the probability of
getting a red snapdragon flower?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

21. What are the possible phenotypes of the offspring from the cross of the parental
plants (WW x RW)?
A. Pink and white
B. Red and pink
C. Pink only
D. Red only

For numbers 22-24.

A guinea pig with cream coat is a result of cross breeding of white guinea pig and a
yellow coat guinea pig.

22. What is the genotype of a guinea pig with cream coat?

A. WW
B. YW
C. CC
D. YY

23. What is the chance or percentage of having a guinea pig with yellow coat from a
guinea pig with cream coat and a white guinea pig?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

24. What guinea pig should you cross breed if you want to have only yellow coat guinea
pig?
A. Cream x Cream
B. Yellow x Yellow
C. Yellow x White
D. White x White

25. You have a pet dog with a long tailed and short tailed. What is the chance or
percentage of having a dog with medium-length tail from a long- tailed and short- tailed
parents?
A. 100%
B. 75%
C. 50%
D. 25%

26. How is sex determined and inherited?

A. When an egg is fertilized by a sperm carrying Y chromosome, the offspring is female.
B. When an egg is fertilized by a sperm carrying X chromosome, the offspring is female.
C. When a sperm is fertilized by an egg carrying Y chromosome, the offspring is female.
D. When a sperm is fertilized by an egg carrying X chromosome, the offspring is female.

27. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

A. Females have 44 body chromosomes and two sex chromosomes which are both X.
B. The total number in each cell of an individual is 21 pairs of chromosomes
C. Males have 44 body chromosomes and two sex chromosomes X and Y.
D. The males determine the sex of their children.

28. What type of allele will be expressed if both dominant and recessive alleles are
present for a given trait?
A. Segregated
B. Autosomal
C. Recessive
D. Dominant

29. Ana wants to have children with her partner who is a color –blind male. What is the
probability a normal female of having a son who is color blind?
A. 100%
B. 75%
C. 50%
D. 0%

30. If a woman is a carrier for a sex-linked recessive trait of hemophilia and her husband
have hemophilia, which of the following is true?
A. 0% of sons have hemophilia but 100% of daughters are carriers
B. 50% of daughters and 50% of sons have hemophilia.
C. All daughters will have hemophilia.
D. All sons will have hemophilia.

31. Patterned baldness is a sex-influenced trait more expressed in a male. If b+ is normal

allele making non-bald phenotype and b is mutant leading to bald phenotype, for a cross
between a bald mother and normal father, what is the probability of a bald son?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

32. A peacock with fanlike tail feather (ZZFf) mated with a peahen without fanlike tail
feather (ZWFf). Which of the following are the possible genotypes of their offspring?
A. ZZFF and ZWFF
B. ZZFF and ZWFf
C. ZZFf and ZWFF
D. ZZff and ZWFf

33. What is the probability or chance that the peacock will have a fanlike tail feather?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

34. What is the probability that the peahen will have a fanlike tail feather?
A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

35. You have a poultry in your house, then you suddenly noticed that cock feathering is
never seen in female but is common among males. What pattern on inheritance is shown
in the example?
A. Sex-influenced trait
B. Sex determination
C. Sex-linked genes
D. Sex-limited trait

36. How is the forest ecosystem affected when trees are cut down?
A. There will be available space for humans in building houses and other infrastructures
B. Animals who depend on forests lose their shelter and food.
C. Oxygen will no longer be available for everyone.
D. Nutrients are lost in the soil.

37. These are the effects of deforestation EXCEPT:

A. Decrease in wildlife resources that will eventually lead to extinction
B. Storm Surge
C. Soil erosion
D. Floods

38. Which description characterizes a stable ecosystem?

A. At least one type of plant and one type of animal
B. A wide variety of organisms
C. Two types of organisms
D. One type of organism
39. If fish reproduce at a slower rate at which they are caught, how will their population
change?
A. The fish will swim to other bodies of water
B. It will increase dramatically
C. It will not change
D. It will decrease

40. Which of the following describe the causes of environmental problems shown in the
picture below?
A. Destruction of habitat
B. Hunting and Trapping
C. Pollution
D. Floods

41. Philippine Eagle is one of the worlds largest, most powerful birds of prey. Some of its
family is endemic to forest in the Philippines and this organism is threatened by its
extinction. Philippine Eagle is considered to be:
A. Endangered
B. Fossilized
C. Adapted
D. Extinct

42. Anna ride to her vehicle going to her work at a factory. She noticed that it has a
smoke coming from her vehicles and the factory she’d work for that may cause air
pollution. What do you think will be the result of air pollution?
A. Wildlife Depletion
B. Overharvesting
C. Deforestation
D. Acid Rain

43. Which process is best illustrated by the diagram?

A. Cellular respiration
B. Photosynthesis
C. Fermentation
D. Digestion

44. What will happen if ATP and NADPH are already used up at night?
A. Water molecule will split to form electrons.
B. Less carbon dioxide will be used.
C. Less oxygen will be produced.
D. Glucose production will stop.

45. When cells break down food into chemical energy it undergoes three major
processes, glycolysis, Krebs cycle and electron transport. Which of these processes
provide the greatest number of ATP molecules?
A. electron transport chain
B. Calvin Cycle
C. Krebs cycle
D. Glycolysis
46. Which of the following diagrams represents the correct cycling gases?

47. Which of the following organisms carries out cellular respiration?

A. A corn plant
B. A yeast
C. Algae
D. A dog

48. Which of the following is an example of a pigment?

A. Chloroplasts
B. Chlorophyll
C. Pyruvate
D. Sucrase

49. What role does Oxygen play in aerobic respiration?

A. It is the final acceptor at the end of the electron transport chain.
B. It combines with Acetyl-CoA at the start of the Krebs cycle.
C. It is given off as a by-product during oxidation of pyruvate.
D. It plays no role.

50. Oxygen is essential in cellular respiration. What is the role of oxygen in the electron
transport chain?
A. It provides a high energy proton.
C. It serves as the final acceptor.
B. It releases an electron.
D. It forms water.

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