gen-ed Flashcards
1
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Chimpanzee, orangutan, gorilla
A
– primates
2
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Hair-like structure in eukaryotic cell
A
Cilia -
3
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– educated Filipinos during the Spanish era
A
Ilustrados
4
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Waste not want not (meaning)
A
– magtipid
5
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Greatest common divisor of 18, 45, 6
A
= 3
6
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Highest consumption of electricity
A
- AC
7
Q
– termite, fungi, earthworm
A
Food decomposers
8
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Agency that nurtures Philippine arts
A
– NCCA
9
Q
Least common multiple of 8, 6, 3
A
= 24
10
Q
Filipina stage actress who won international awards
A
– lea salonga
11
Q
– o.henry
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William Sydney porter
12
Q
– also known as flower bearing
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Angiosperms
13
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Modern taxonomy
A
– carl Linnaeus
14
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Ancient taxonomy
A
– Aristotle
15
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Prime factors of 56
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– 7, 2, 2, 2
16
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Zebra, horse, donkey belong to the same _______that’s why they have the same characteristics
A
genus
17
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science of classifying living and extinct organisms
A
Taxonomy –
18
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– penicillin
A
Alexander fleming
19
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– scent of apples
A
Bienvenido santos
20
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first president of the Philippines from the ilocos region
A
Elipidio Quirino –
21
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marine mammal that has long ivory tusk
A
Walrus –
22
Q
Bahala na is a ________ Filipino trait
A
ambivalent
23
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Practical application of scientific knowledge on daily activities
A
– technology
24
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pinkamababang lebel ng wika na impormal
A
Balbal –
25
Greatest common factor of 22, 15, 7
= 1
26
Body of knowledge including the process by which knowledge is developed
– science
27
Beneficial effect of scientific development on education
– access to knowledge
28
Light travels faster in vacuum (true/false)
true
29
Sound travel fastest in solids and slower in liquids (true/false)
true
30
Kuro-kuro ng patnugot ng pahayagan tungkol sa napapanahong isyu
– pangulong tudling
31
Reign of greed, the subversion (1891, Belgium) –
el filibusterismo
32
Acid group found in vinegar
– acetic acid
33
– Dante Alighieri – hell, purgatory, paradise
Divine comedy
34
Laws of heredity
– gregor mendel
35
hot gas of nuclei and electrons
Plasma –
36
Father of modern psychology
– wundt
37
– prize winning poem of rizal while being a student in ust
A la Juventud Filipina
38
Insulin deficiency leads to diabetes mellitus (true/false)
true
39
Brundtland commission
– sustainable development
40
– major source of energy on earth
Sun
41
the protein shell of virus
Capsid
42
Wika ay naunawaan ng lahat at napagkasunduan ng ating lahi/pangkat –
arbitraryo
43
Beneficial effect of scientific development on agriculture
– increased crop yield
44
My head is bloody but unbowed
– hyperbole
45
Eager reader
– voracious
46
– symbolizes the love of alfredo for Julia
Dead stars
47
Prodigal son, black sheep of the family
– metaphor
48
Occurs when you connect two main clauses with no punctuation
– run-on sentence
49
Indirect, polite way of describing something too inappropriate or awkward to address directly (sugarcoating)
– euphemism
50
Method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of words in a structured and conventional way
– language
51
Exchange of letters
– epistolary
52
First national artist in literature (1973)
– jose Garcia villa
53
Pauses or rests in speech
– juncture
54
One’s value system is acquired (true/false)
true
55
– in charge of the entire publication
Editor in chief
56
Profanity, offensive word –
obscenity
57
Transmuted –
changed
58
Rustling –
onomatopoeia
59
The Gettysburg address (oratorical piece) –
Abraham Lincoln
60
Fondness –
penchant
61
To be or not to be (hamlet) –
indecision
62
Rival of two households, long feud
– romeo and Juliet
63
Filipino migrant writer, American culture
– bienvenido santos
64
Spanish culture –
nick joaquin (quijano de manila)
65
Watching too much t.v. can cause short attention span (T/F)
true
66
Poem about rural life and landscape –
pastoral
67
Means a big fuss about a small problem –
a storm in a teacup
68
Florante at laura –
Francisco baltazar
69
Making it up on the spot –
impromptu
70
The tale of two brothers (Egyptian short story) –
anpu and bata
71
I die just when the dawn breaks to herald the day –
jose rizal
72
Longest play of Shakespeare –
hamlet
73
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…” of elizabeth browning –
sonnet
74
Collection of stories of animals –
aesop’s fables
75
Part of newspaper which gives the name of the writer of the article –
byline
76
Teach moral lessons –
didactic
77
Peacock –
hera
78
Main divisions of a play –
acts
79
America is in the heart –
carlos bulosan
80
Ad hominem –
personal attacks
81
- literary colossus of visayas
Angel Magahum
82
Very first library in the world –
library of Ashurbanipal
83
Historical poem about a medieval knight/ epic of france –
song of roland
84
Golden age of the Filipino language –
Japanese period
85
Pulling each other down –
crab mentality
86
Stories about gods and goddess –
myth
87
– father of English essay
Francis bacon
88
– blind poet of Greece
Homer
89
– father of greek tragedy, theological poet, soldier playwright
Aeschylus
90
– Oedipus rex
Sophocles
91
– modern playwright or greek tragedian (medea, Bacchae)
Euripides
92
– master of greek comedy
Aristophanes
93
– greatest writer that rome produced (wrote aeneid)
Virgil
94
– father of Italian literature/ language
Dante Alighieri
95
– epics of spain
El cid
96
– god of music and poetry
Apollo
97
– god of love and beauty
Aphrodite
98
– god of smith and volcano
Hephaestus
99
– god of the underworld
Hades
100
– god of chastity and moon
Artemis
101
– known as pallas; war and wisdom
Athena
102
– god of fertility and marriage
Hera
103
– messenger god
Hermes
104
– god of sea and earthquakes
Poseidon
105
– god of lightning; king of gods
Zeus
