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 ability of a living organism to detect and respond to changes in the environment is referred to as growth locomotion irritability taxis 2 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS One important characteristics of green plant is that they possess specialized sense organs Respond slowly to stimuli Are usually motile Are autotropic 3 / 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 species class kingdom family 4 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A virus can sometimes be regarded as a living organism because it causes diseases in plants and animals Reproduces in living cells It exists in a variety of shapes Is easily visible with the aid of an electron microscope 5 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The population of different organisms that exist together in a habitat is called ecology biosphere biomes community 6 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not a transmitable character in plants Habit of growth Life span Resistance to environmental factors Haemophilia 7 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of organisms of the same kind inhabiting the same environment is called population species ecosystem habitat 8 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The flame cells are used for excretion in Fluke Bacteria Nematode Volvox 9 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The level of organism in spirogyra and volvox is Tissue system cell organ 10 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The insect trapping movements of the leaves of the venus fly trap is a behavioural adaptation for surviving adverse weather conditions obtaining food support dormancy 11 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following animals has homodont dentition? Rat Man Pigeon Lizard 12 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following protects the essential parts of the flower at bud stage? Stamens Carpels Sepals Petals 13 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The attachment of the embryo to the wall of the uterus is called Placentation Gametogenesis Implantation Ovulation 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 It passes twice through the heart in a complete circuit It moves in both arteries and veins The heart contains auricles and ventricles 15 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Raw materials required by green plants to manufacture their food are mainly fluids inorganic substances mainly gases living materials 16 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS One of the following is a process of transmission of hereditary characteristics by chromosomes Genes relating to the same character occupy identical locations on the chromosomes Separation of gametes during fertilization Dictating the formation of a protein by a gene in a chromosome Separation of homologous chromosomes into four daughter cells 17 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statement about the similarities in plant and animal transport is correct? Diffusion is not required The transport medium is made up of only tissues Their materials are transported in the same vessels Materials and hormones are transported in fluid form 18 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Stores and digest food Gets rid of excess water Gets rid of excreta Produces Enzymes 19 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When an ovary is placed on the receptacle above the other floral parts it is referred to as superior ovary half superior ovary inferior ovary half inferior ovary 20 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Food chain refers to the feeding relationships between animals in a ______? group community phylum Family 21 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What is the primary function of cofactors? To synthesize enzymes To aid in enzyme function To break down old enzymes To inhibit enzymes 22 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The hormones secreted by pancreas serves to Lower blood glucose level Make the body react to emergencies Raise the level of calcium in the blood Facilitate the development of facial hairs 23 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following conditions is NOT necessary for photosynthesis to take place? Carbon(IV)oxide Carbon(II)oxide ChlorophyII Light 24 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the organisms represent are notable agricultural pests II and III I and IV II and IV I and III 25 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A bacteria that is spherically shaped is called? vibrio diplobacillus bacillus coccus 26 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Inheritable character/features possessed by an organism can be referred to as Genes Allelo morphs Traits Locus 27 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The curvature movement of plants in response to the stimulus of water is called Phototropism thigmotropism geotropism hydrotropism 28 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The bacteria that is found in the root nodules of leguminous plants is clostridium nostoc rhizobium azotobacter 29 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The part of the mammalian ear responsible for the maintenance of balance is the pinna perilymph vestibular system cochlea 30 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which organ removes the largest amount of excess water from the body? Kidney Liver Skin Lung 31 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Produces Enzymes Stores and digest food Gets rid of excreta Gets rid of excess water 32 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following plant hormone is responsible for ripening of fruits? Abscisic acid Ethylene Cytokinins Gibberellins 33 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Size, colour and fingerprints are examples of ______ adaptive variation morphological variation discontinuous variation physiological variation 34 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Coloration of the eye is ______ variation morphological physiological adaptive recessive 35 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The breeding posture illustrated in the amplexus courtship display reproductive swimming mating 36 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these is not a sampling method for determining population size? transect method capture and re-capture method complete census systematic sampling 37 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The period of inactivity seen in some animals during long period of heat or drought is Migration Aestivation Hibernation Adaptation 38 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Nitrogen is released into the atmosphere when ________ when lightning strike sugar is completely broken down through plant uptake plants absorbs mineral salt 39 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS DNA in eukaryotic cells is contained in the lysosome central vacuole nucleus golgi body 40 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When sickle cell carrier marries a normal woman, the probability of them having a normal offspring is 0.25 0.75 0.5 .1 41 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The common thing in plant and animal cell is nucleus chloroplast cell wall centrioles 42 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The flippers of a whale and the fins of a fish are examples of divergent evolution co-evolution convergent evolution continuous variation 43 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Ability to taste PTC in some individuals is a character that is sex-linked acquired morphological heritable 44 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In which of the following groups of vertebrates is parental care mostly exhibited? Reptilia Mammalia Amphibia Aves 45 / 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 symbiotic nutrition holozoic nutrition holophytic nutrition saprophytic nutrition 46 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic? Euglena and chlamydomonas Nostoc and plasmodium Volvox and Rhizopus Amoeba and paramecium 47 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An organism which exhibit extracellular digestion is Spirogyra Amoeba Rhizopus Paramecium 48 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram below to answer the question that follow wind vane rain gauge anemometer hygrometer 49 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Animals are said to gregarious when they transmit information from one individual to another they are of the same species moving together in a group they give an alarm to alert others to show the normal protective behaviour of the group when danger threatens they survive adverse conditions of cold weather 50 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The feeding relationship among a set of members of a community is referred to as _______? pyramid of energy a food web pyramid of member a food chain 51 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The cytoplasm of a cell is considered a very important component because it is solely responsible for cell division regulates the amount of energy in the cell suspends all cell organelles is the outermost part of the cell 52 / 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 better adapted to life in darkness than to life in light not overcrowded able to carry out holozoic nutrition able to carry out photosynthesis using carbon dioxide in the pond water 53 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following describes the function of lymph Temperature regulation Body defence Engulfing Production of antibodies 54 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The diagram shows that the organisms are oviparous hermaphrodite ovoviparous viviparous 55 / 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 Vas deferens Seminal Vesicle Cowper's gland 56 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a behavioural adaptation that protects prey from predators? Shedding of leaves Hibernation Dormancy Secreting irritating fluid 57 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question that followsThe instrument is used to measure direction of wind relative humidity spread of wind atmospheric pressure 58 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Strong short and concical beak to pick and crush seeds is an adaptive feature of weaver bird duck hawk owl 59 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The insects in which the maxillae are modified into a long coiled proboscis is butterfly grasshopper mosquito housefly 60 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these organisms partly digest its food extracellularly? 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