Science
SCIENCE ENTRANCE EXAM REVIEWER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Excretion - ANS ✓Elimination of metabolic wastes
Reproduction - ANS ✓The process of producing offspring either sexually or
asexually
Asexual reproduction - ANS ✓Reproduction without the use of gametes or sex
cells
Fission - ANS ✓Splitting of the body of an organism into two identical parts
Budding - ANS ✓A form of asexual reproduction in which a new organism grows
out of the body of a parent.
Sporulation - ANS ✓Spore formation
Spore - ANS ✓A tiny cell that ferns and fungi use to reproduce
Sexual reproduction - ANS ✓Requires the union of male and female gametes
called 'fertilization'
External Fertilization - ANS ✓The union of gametes outside the bodies of the
parents, as in many fishes and amphibians
Science Entranc
, 2
Science
Internal Fertilization - ANS ✓The union of an egg cell with a sperm during
sexual reproduction inside the body of a parent
Cells - ANS ✓Basic unit of life
Prokaryotic Cells - ANS ✓no nucleus- found in bacteria and archaebacteria
Plasma membrane - ANS ✓permeable barrier
Cytoplasm - ANS ✓The semi liquid material inside a cell which all organelles
float in
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) - ANS ✓a complex molecule containing the
genetic information that makes up the chromosomes. In a form of double helix, a
shape similar to a spiral staircase
Ribosomes - ANS ✓Makes proteins
Eukaryotic cells - ANS ✓Contain a nucleus and other organelles that are bound
by membranes.
Animal cell - ANS ✓Have centrioles and lysosomes that plant cells don't
Organelles - ANS ✓A membrane-enclosed structure with a specialized function
within a cell.
Mitochondria - ANS ✓Powerhouse of the cell
Golgi apparatus - ANS ✓distributes proteins
Science Entranc