1.

2.

Which of the following are the human central nervous systems?

A.

Brain and spinal cord

C.

Cranial nerves and spinal cord

B.

Brain and spinal nerves

D.

Cranial nerves and spinal nerves

What is the peripheral nervous system that connects the brain with the sensory and
internal organs?

3.

4.

A.

Synapse

B.

Spinal cord

C.

Spinal nerves

D.

Cranial nerves

Which of the following is referred to the messages that travel along neurones?
A.

Stimuli

B.

Impulse

C.

Synapse

D.

Neurone

The chart shows the flow of impulse in nervous coordination.

Receptor

Spinal cord

Effector

Which of the following action is related to the chart?

A. Knee jerk
B. Chewing food
C. Reading a book
D. Walking on a rope
5.

Which of the following parts of the nervous system receives stimuli and generates

impulses?
A. Effector
B. Receptor
C. Relay neurone
D. Sensory neurone

6.

The diagram shows parts of the human brain.

P
Which of the following is the function of the part labelled P?

7.

8.

9.

A.

Maintains reflex action

B.

Controls mental function

C.
D.

Maintains posture and balance

Controls breathing and heartbeat

Which of the following is the action that is controlled by somatic nervous system?
A.

Yawning

C.

Speaking

B.

Knee jerk

D.

Blinking eyes

Which of the following stimulus is received by stretch receptor to generate impulses?

A.

A sharp object

C.

The stretch in muscles

B.

Flash of bright light

D.

Surrounding temperature

Which of the following is related to the nerve pathway in a reflex action?

A.

Effector

C.

Impulse

B.

Receptor

D.

Reflex arc

10.

Why do surface area of cerebrum and cerebellum have numerous folds?

11.

A.

Reduce size of brain

B.

Place more neurones

C.

Place more hormones

D.

Protect the brain from danger

What is the organic chemical that carries the information around the body?
A. Impulses
B. Synapses

12.

C. Neurones
D. Hormones

Which of the following endocrine glands is related with the iodine content in the food intake?
A.

Pancreas

B.

Thyroid gland

C.

Adrenal gland

D.

Pituitary gland

13. Which of the following is the unit of inheritance found in chromosomes?

A

Gene

Gamete

Sperm

Nucleus

14. What is the function of cell division through meiosis?

A

Produces more siblings

Replaces damaged tissues

Increases the size of an organism

Creates variation in a population of organisms

15. A goldfish has 100 chromosomes in each body cell. How many
chromosomes are found in each male gamete?

25

75

50

100

16. What is the number of chromosomes found in a female human skin cell?
A

22+ X

44 +XX

22+ Y

44+XY

17. Which of the following processes in plants involves meiosis?

18.

19.

20.

Bud growth

Repair of tissue

Root growth

Formation of pollen

Which of the following statements is true about mitosis?

A

Occurs in ovary

Produces gametes

Produces two daughter nuclei

Chromosomes number is halved

What are dominant genes?

A

Cannot reproduce themselves

Fully express their characteristics

Do not express their characteristics

Multiply to produce more daughter cells

When can the recessive genes be expressed fully?

A Dominant genes are absent
B Dominant genes are present
C Both dominant and recessive genes are absent
D Both dominant and recessive genes are present

21.

Farid who is able to roll his tongue has the genotype Gg. He married Sara who
is also able to roll her tongue and has the genotype Gg. What percentage of their
children will be able to roll their tongues?
A

25%

75%

50%

100%

22. What determines the gender of a baby ?

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

Chromosomes in the ovum

Type of sex chromosomes in the sperm

Number of chromosomes in the sperm

Number of chromosomes in the ovum

How are identical twins formed?

A

Two ova fertilized by two different sperms

One ovum fertilized by two different sperms

Two ova fertilized by one sperm before splitting into two

One ovum fertilized by one sperm before splitting into two

Why can non-identical twins be of different sexes ?

A

They arise from the same zygote

The same sperm fertilizes two different ova

Two different sperms fertilize two different ova

Two different sperms fertilize the same ovum

Which of the following describes Siamese twins?

A

Born separately

Have different genetic content

Have underdeveloped body parts

Identical twins do not separate completely

Two children are identical twins. Which of the following characteristic is not common
between them?
A

Sex

Blood group

Height

Ability to roll tongue

What is the term used for the sudden and permanent changes in the DNA ?
A

Mitosis

Variation

Mutation

Crossing over

28.

What is the term used for the selection of plants or animals of desirable traits?
A

Gene screening

Artificial breeding

Natural selection

Selective breeding

29.

What is the production of genetically identical individuals called?

A

Cloning

Back-crossing

Breeding

Hybridization

30. Which of the following does not involve genetic engineering?

A

Gene therapy for treating cancer

The production of Tenera oil palm

The production of insulin by bacteria

The production of genetically modified food

31.

What is the characteristics desired from the genetic research done on plants?
A

Matures faster

Produces less fruit

Easy to get diseases

Has short life span

32. When solid iodine is heated in a test tube, it changes into another state. Which of the following is
true about its particles in this state?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Very strong forces of attraction between particles

The movement of its particles decreases
It can easily be compressed
The particles vibrate at a fixed position

33. Which of the following has the highest reactivity with water?
A. Potassium
B. Magnesium
C. Argentum
D. Tungsten

34. Which of the following is used as a catalyst in the contact process?

A. Sulphur dioxide
B. Magnesium oxide
C. Aluminium oxide
D. Vanadium (V) oxide

35. Which of the following radioisotopes are used in fertilisers to study the absorption of minerals by
plants?
A. Carbon 13
B. Phosphorus 32
C. Cobalt 60
D. Iodine -131

36. Radioactive leakage can cause

A. acid rain
B. the greenhouse effect
C. mutation in humans
D. thinning of the ozone layer

37. What is the use of pewter?

A. To make coins
B. To make ornaments
C. To make table wires
D. To make kitchen utensils

38. Which of the following is a method to make a gold ring unbendable?

A. Add more gold to it
B. Melt the gold ring and remould it
C. Change the shape of the gold ring
D. Melt it and alloy it with other element

39.

A driver wants to overtake the car in front of him, takes a quick look at the side mirror.
Which of the following image he has seen?
A.

Real and upright

B.

Real and inverted

C.

Virtual and upright

D.

Virtual and inverted

40. Which of the following can formed a real image?

41.

A.

A plane mirror

B.

A convex lens

C.

A concave lens

D.

A glass prism

Which of the following image cannot be seen on a screen?

A.

Real image

B.

Virtual images

C.

Inverted images

D.

Diminished image

42.

43.

Which of the following coloured inks are used in colour printing?

A.

Red, blue, green and black

B.

Blue, green, yellow, and black

C.

Cyan, magenta, red and black

D.

Magenta, yellow, cyan and black

Which of the following is the importance of colours to human being?

A.

Helps in pollination

B.

Used in electrical wiring

C.

As a warning to other animals

D.

Enable us to hide from danger

44. Which of the following does not contribute to variation in a species?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Binary fission
Surrounding temperature
Sexual reproduction
Genetic mutation

45. During which process below there is a decrease in forces of attraction between particles?
A. Condensation
B. Freezing

C. Melting
D. Solidification

46. Zinc chloride in solid form does not conduct electricity because
A.
B.
C.
D.

The force of attraction between particles are too strong

No ions exist in the solid state
The ions do not move freely in the solid state
Zinc chloride consists of atomic substances

47. The material that has the properties below is

A. Sulphur
B. Carbon

Ductile
Malleable
High melting point

C. Lead
D. Chlorine
48. Which of the following is an endothermic reaction?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Dissolving solid sodium hydroxide in water

Dissolving solid ammonium nitrate in water
When acid react with alkali
When zinc react with hydrochloric acid

49. The rod that conducts electricity when immersed in the sodium chloride solution in an
electrolytic cell is called
A.
B.
C.
D.

An electrode
An electrolyte
An conductor
An anion

50. Which of the following statements is true about radioactive substances?

A.
B.
C.
D.

They always undergo spontaneous decay to form more stable elements.

They are molecules with unstable nucleus.
They cannot be found in nature.
All radioactive substances can emit three types of radiation at the same time.