ANSWER KEY:

Week 1

Learning Task 2. (10 points)

1. Crushing the candy to smaller pieces affects its dissolution by speeding up its dissolving process.
2. Crushing the candy represent in the process of digestion is mechanical digestion.

Learning Task 4. (15 points)

Food will enter first to our mouth where in the mechanical digestion by means of mastication or chewing takes
place and turns the food into acidic soup known as chyme where chemical digestion starts. It moves through our
esophagus by a process called peristalsis. The large, hollow organs of your tract contain a layer of muscle that enables their
walls to move. The movement pushes food and liquid through the stomach that breaks down the chyme into a chemical
building block. The food the moves to our small intestine where the process of absorption of nutrients happens. More
absorption process happens to the large intestine. The undigested materials are removed from our body as feces and go
out to our anus.

Rubrics Scoring:
15 points – no error in spelling, legibly written and clean.
10 points – minimal errors.
7 points – not legibly written, not clean.
3 points – many errors, committed, cannot be read.
1 point – no explanation has been written.

Learning Task 5 (20 points)

1. food 6. Chewed 11. esophagus 16. liver
2. energy 7. Tongue 12. stomach 17. large intestine
3. digestion 8. saliva 13. acid 18. liquids
4. system 9. swallow 14. small intestine 19. waste
5. mouth 10. pharynx 15. absorbed 20. rectum

Week 2

Learning Task 1. – (10 points)

COMPARISON MITOSIS MEIOSIS
Purpose Growth and Repair Reproduction
Number of parents 1 1
Number of divisions 1 2
Number of cells produce 2 4
Chromosome sets (=n) 2n = 46 n = 23
Type of cells that undergo cell divisions Somatic (Body Cells) Gametes (Sex Cells)

Learning Task 2 (15 points – 3 points each)

1. Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic
information. These cells are our sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females.
2. Yes, the DNA is replicated after Meiosis I which happens during the interphase stage, specifically, interphase stage in
DNA synthesis. Each of the 46 chromosomes is duplicated by the cell.
3. The differences between the Metaphase I and Metaphase II is they are in a different division of Meiosis. The main
differences are that during metaphase 1, chromosomes are attached as homologous pair (same gene sequence) at
the equator while during metaphase 2, single chromosome are align at the equator.
4. a) Anaphase II b) Metaphase I c) Telophase I and Cytokinesis
5. Four haploid cells

Learning Task 3. (4 points)

a. Homologous Chromosomes
b. Sister Chromatids
c. Meiosis I
d. Meiosis II

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Week 3

Learning Task 1. (15 points)

1. Purple Flower – Pp White Flower - pp

p p
The possible offspring of a heterozygous purple flower and
a white flower are 2 purple flowers (Pp) and 2 white flowers
P Pp Pp
(pp).
p pp pp

2. Blue-eyed father – bb Brown-eyed mother – BB

b b
There is no probability that a blue-eyed father (bb) and a
B Bb Bb
brown-eyed mother (BB) can have blue-eyed child.
B Bb Bb

3. dimpled father – Dd No dimpled mother – dd

D d

d Dd dd There is a probability that a heterozygous father for dimples

(Dd) and mother with no dimples (dd) can have two
d Dd dd children with dimples.

WEEK 4
Learning Task 1. (19 points)

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Learning Task 2. (18 points)

PLANT ANIMAL PROTISTS FUNGI BACTERIA

Duhat Cattle Algae Yeast Bacilli
Coconut Crocodile Protozoan Mushroom Bacteria
Gumamela Frog
Moss Plant Coral
Fern Jellyfish
Narra
Moss

Learning Task 3. (14 points)

PLANTS
FLOWERING NON-FLOWERING
Reproduced by seeds Reproduced by Reproduced by spores
reproductive parts
Carrot Bougainvillea Fern
Eggplant Garlic
Gymnosperms Grass
Mango Ginger
Okra Onion
Radish Potato
Sunflower

Learning Task 4. (14 points)

BOTH
VASCULAR NONVASCULAR
• Has xylem.
• Has roots. • Has • No roots.
• Has stems. phloem. • No stems.
• Has leaves. • Has • No leaves.
• Large in size. chlorophyll. • Small in size.
• Fern plant. • Make food • Moss Plant.
for self.

Learning Task 5. (28 points)

MAMMAL REPTILE BIRDS FISH INSECT

Dog Alligator Chicken Milkfish Ant
Cat Lizard Duck Salm Shark Butterfly
Giraffe Snake Mosquito

1. Mammals are animals that has mammary gland that produce milk.
2. The reptiles known as cold-blooded animals because they cannot generate their own heat. They can regulate
heat by changing environment such as exposing themselves to sunlight to heat up.
3. The difference between amphibian and reptile is their skins. Amphibian has smooth moist skin unlike reptile who
have scaly covering.
4. A shark is a fish. They have gills to breath in water.
5. Mammals has distinguishing characteristics such as body covered by hairs, warm-blooded, giving birth to their
young, breathe through their lungs, with ears, and has mammary gland.

Learning Task 6. (10 points)

1. BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
2. TAXONOMY
3. CLASSIFICATION
4. SYSTEMATICS
5. FUNGI
SCIENTIST: CARL LINNAEUS – 5 points

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WEEK 5
Learning Task 1. (10 points)
1. Food Chain
2. Energy Pyramid
3. Ecosystem
4. Trophic level
5. High Biodiversity
6. Low diversity
7. Decomposer
8. Producers
9. Carnivores
10. Food Web

Learning Task 3. (15 points)

Completing the diagram is 5 points.

SUN - GRASS - GRASSHOPPER - SHREW - OWL

1. Grass
2. Grasshopper
3. Owl
4. They feed on the primary consumer or plant-eater (herbivore).
5. Owl gets the least energy because it only gets less amount of energy in the trophic level.

Learning Task 4. (16 points)

Eagle

Snake
Rabbit
Grass, Trees, Carrot
1. The high the level the lesser the energy received.
2. 1st trophic level
3. 4th trophic level
4. It defines as the presentation of energy flow relationship between organisms.
5. The energy flow decreases when the organism from one trophic level are consumed by the other organism in
another trophic level.

Learning Task 5. (5 points)

1. D
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. A

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