JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS 0% 223 JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Attempt 60 questions that will picked from our pool of questions. You have 1 hour to answer all the questions. You can retake the exams as many time as possible.Goodluck 1 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The cytoplasm of a cell is considered a very important component because it suspends all cell organelles is solely responsible for cell division regulates the amount of energy in the cell is the outermost part of the cell 2 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An animal which is active during the day is known as a terrestrial animal nocturnal animal homortacmic animal diurnal animal 3 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a behavioural adaptation that protects prey from predators? Dormancy Shedding of leaves Hibernation Secreting irritating fluid 4 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The attachment of the embryo to the wall of the uterus is called Ovulation Implantation Gametogenesis Placentation 5 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The path followed by air as it passes through the lungs in mammals pinna perilymph cochlea vestibular system 6 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram shown to answer the question. After an hour, the level of water in the thistle funnel will fall remain the same rise double 7 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram shown to answer the question. The experiment above is used to demonstrate the process of water culture transportation diffusion osmosis 8 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is an agent of a sexually transmitted disease? Treponema pallidum Salmonella typhi Entamoeba histolytica Clostridium tetani 9 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A population is best described as A group of the same species of organisms living together Different species of wild animals A group of animals and plants living together A group of insects and grasses 10 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The type of nutrition exhibited when organism lives on the body surface or inside the body of another type of organism is Holozoic carnivores saprohytic parasitic 11 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An accurate identification of a rapist can be carried out by conducting blood group test RNA analysis behavioural tests DNA analysis 12 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The modification in structure, physiology and behaviour of plant and animal is called ______ succession evolution adaption variation 13 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic? Nostoc and plasmodium Euglena and chlamydomonas Volvox and Rhizopus Amoeba and paramecium 14 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Blood circulation in a mammal is said to be double because It circulates in both the hands and other organs The heart contains auricles and ventricles It moves in both arteries and veins It passes twice through the heart in a complete circuit 15 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Strong short and concical beak to pick and crush seeds is an adaptive feature of weaver bird hawk owl duck 16 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which organ removes the largest amount of excess water from the body? Lung Liver Skin Kidney 17 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of organisms of the same kind inhabiting the same environment is called ecosystem species habitat population 18 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these organisms partly digest its food extracellularly? Housefly Mosquito Cockroach Termite 19 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The function of pith in plant is trap chlorophyll from the sunlight Absorb mineral salt and nutrient from the soil Removal of waste product from the plant Pith, or medulla, is a tissue in the stems of vascular plants. Pith is composed of soft, spongy parenchyma cells, which store and transport nutrients throughout the plant. 20 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Agglutination is the _______ of the ________ coagulation, red blood cell white blood cells, red blood cell coagulation, water coagulation, white bloodcell 21 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Food chain refers to the feeding relationships between animals in a ______? phylum group Family community 22 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The longest bone in the body is the humerous femur scapula tibia 23 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The four classes of cnidarian include the following except Scyphozoa Cubozoa Anthozoa Turbellaria 24 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of closely related organisms capable of interbreeding to produce the fertile offspring are known as members of a family species kingdom class 25 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An organism which exhibit extracellular digestion is Rhizopus Amoeba Paramecium Spirogyra 26 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the organisms represent are notable agricultural pests I and IV II and III I and III II and IV 27 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In which of the following species is the biomass of an individual the smallest? Bufo sp Spirogvra sp Agama sp In which of the following species is the biomass of an individual the smallest? 28 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A virus can sometimes be regarded as a living organism because it Reproduces in living cells causes diseases in plants and animals It exists in a variety of shapes Is easily visible with the aid of an electron microscope 29 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following protects the essential parts of the flower at bud stage? Stamens Petals Sepals Carpels 30 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The type of nutrition in which two organisms of different species live together and derive nutrients from each other is holophytic nutrition saprophytic nutrition holozoic nutrition symbiotic nutrition 31 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The population of different organisms that exist together in a habitat is called biomes biosphere community ecology 32 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not a transmitable character in plants Haemophilia Habit of growth Life span Resistance to environmental factors 33 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram below to answer the question that follow hygrometer rain gauge wind vane anemometer 34 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What would happen if solution Y is more concentrated than solution X The level of X would rise, Y would rise The level of X would rise, Y would falls The level of Y would rise, X would fall. The level of X and Y stands the same 35 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What is the primary function of cofactors? To aid in enzyme function To inhibit enzymes To break down old enzymes To synthesize enzymes 36 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The yellowish colored liquid component of blood that normally holds the blood cells in suspension is thrombocyte water plasma serum 37 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS How many days does is used for incubation of an egg to release chick 20 22 21 23 38 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The flame cells are used for excretion in Volvox Fluke Bacteria Nematode 39 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The diagram shows that the organisms are viviparous oviparous ovoviparous hermaphrodite 40 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A tissue is composed of a group of systems similar cells related organs tissues 41 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following parts are involved in breathing process, except nostrils mouth diaphragm ribs 42 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Physiological adaptation to very dry conditions in animal demonstrates Hibernation Xeromorphism Aestivation Rejuvenation 43 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The feeding relationship among a set of members of a community is referred to as _______? a food web a food chain pyramid of member pyramid of energy 44 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A man who is heterozygous for the disease haemophilia marries a woman who is double recessive for haemophilia. What percentage of their offspring would have the disease? 25% 50% 75% 0% 45 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following plant hormone is responsible for ripening of fruits? Cytokinins Gibberellins Ethylene Abscisic acid 46 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A beaker of pond water containing few specimens of Euglena was placed in a dark room for two weeks. At the end of this period, the specimens of Euglena were still alive because they were not overcrowded better adapted to life in darkness than to life in light able to carry out holozoic nutrition able to carry out photosynthesis using carbon dioxide in the pond water 47 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question that followsThe instrument is used to measure spread of wind atmospheric pressure relative humidity direction of wind 48 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the reproductive system in mammals secretes a part of the seminal fluid which raises the pH of the fluid in the female reproductive system? Prostate gland Cowper's gland Seminal Vesicle Vas deferens 49 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Stores and digest food Produces Enzymes Gets rid of excreta Gets rid of excess water 50 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Cytokinesis of mitosis is a process that ensures that there is distribution of a complete set of genes into each daughter cell each daughter cell gets the necessary organelles worn out organelles are excluded from daughter cells daughter cell inherit new genetic combinations 51 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The common thing in plant and animal cell is centrioles cell wall nucleus chloroplast 52 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS DNA in eukaryotic cells is contained in the golgi body nucleus central vacuole lysosome 53 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The insect trapping movements of the leaves of the venus fly trap is a behavioural adaptation for dormancy surviving adverse weather conditions support obtaining food 54 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Stores and digest food Gets rid of excreta Produces Enzymes Gets rid of excess water 55 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The hormones secreted by pancreas serves to Lower blood glucose level Raise the level of calcium in the blood Make the body react to emergencies Facilitate the development of facial hairs 56 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following serves as the brain box in man skull spinal column skeleton head 57 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The ability of a living organism to detect and respond to changes in the environment is referred to as taxis locomotion growth irritability 58 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When a cell is placed in solution and the size of the cell increases, the concentration of solution is said to be isotonic hypertonic hypotonic dilute 59 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following choices correctly describes the composition of the cell membrane? contains lipids and cytosol contains only lipids contains lipids and protein contains only proteins 60 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When sickle cell carrier marries a normal woman, the probability of them having a normal offspring is .1 0.75 0.25 0.5 Email Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Study in the US, Canada, UK, Germany For Free Get Full Scholarships, Visa & Accommodation Abroad