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SCIENCE 8
QUARTER 3 SUMMATIVE TEST 4.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Directions: Write the letter of your answer on the space provided. USE CAPITAL
LETTERS ONLY. (20 points)

1. What is the main function of the digestive system?

A. Hold and receive food C. Control the chemical activities of the body
B. Remove excess water from the body D. Break the food down to be used for energy
2. When they reach the stomach, what do food particles combine with?
A. Gastric juices B. Bile C. Mucus D. Enzymes
3. What is the liver’s main role?
A. Produce digestive enzymes C. Turn water into minerals for absorption
B. Assist the stomach with digestion D. Remove harmful substances from the blood
4. Which of the following is the most specific description for digestion?
A. absorption of nutrients in the gut. C. chemical/mechanical breakdown of food.
B. input of food into the digestive tract. D. progressive dehydration of indigestible
residue.
5. Which of the following is an accessory organ of digestion?
A. esophagus B. pancreas C. colon D. stomach
6. What breaks food into smaller pieces to begin mechanical digestion?
A. amylase C. esophagus B. stomach D. teeth
7. Which of the following is NOT a digestive process?
A. absorption B. compaction C. assimilation D. ingestion
8. Digestion takes place in a long tube-like canal called the alimentary canal, or the digestive tract. Food
travels through these organs in the following order:
. Mouth, stomach, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, and rectum
B. Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and rectum
C. Mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, and rectum
D. Mouth, stomach, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, and rectum
9. Which of the following absorbs food and nutrients?
A. the mouth B. the pancreas C. the large intestine D. the small intestine
10. What is the purpose of the intestinal villi?
A. push the fecal matter into the rectum
B. increase surface area for nutrient absorption
C. secrete serous fluid to decrease friction among the organs
D. secrete mucous to facilitate the movement through the alimentary canal
11. In which stage of the cell cycle is the longest?
A. Anaphase B. Cytokinesis C. Interphase D. Prophase
12. In what stage of cell cycle does DNA synthesis take place?
A. G1 B. G2 C. M phase D. S phase
13. During which stage of mitosis does the nuclear envelope begins to disappear?
A. Anaphase B. Interphase C. Metaphase D. Prophase
14. How many daughter cells are produced after mitosis cell division?
A. 8 B. 6 C. 4 D. 2
15. In what form of cell division results in the production of gametes or sex cells?
A. Meiosis B. Miosis C. Mitosis D. None of these
16. Which of the following stages pairing up of homologous chromosomes happen?
A. Prophase B. Prophase I C. Prophase II D. Late Prophase
17. During meiosis, when does crossing over occur?
A. Prophase I B. Anaphase I C. Prophase II D. Anaphase II
18. If mitosis takes one (1) round of cell division, meiosis takes how many round/s of cell division?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

19. How many daughter cells are produced by mitosis and meiosis respectively?
 A. mitosis-1; meiosis-2 C. mitosis-2; meiosis-2
B. mitosis-2; meiosis-4 D. mitosis-4; meiosis-4
20. Which among the major events happen in metaphase of mitosis and metaphase II of meiosis?
A. The chromosomes align themselves along the metaphase plate.
B. Homologous chromosomes align themselves along the metaphase plate.
C. Chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibers through the kinetochore.
D. Sister chromatids separated from each other and pulled on the opposite poles.

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