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Mesophyll Vascular bundle Lower epidermis Cuticle 5 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The roots hairs are conducting liquid penetration into the soil strength and support absorption of water and salt 6 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The hereditary factor of the material for inheritance is ovum organ gene sex 7 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The theory that new organs or characteristics develop in organisms when there is a need for them was postulated by Wallace Lean Lamarck Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel 8 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Two plants with red flowers were back crossed, which of the following results indicates that the plants are heterozygous red flower, where red flowers are dominants? 100% white 50% red and 50% white 100% red 75%red and 25% white 9 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The cocoon into which an earthworm lays its egg is produced in the prostomium clitellum peristomium chaeta 10 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The rhesus factor of blood was first identified in a category of Human males Human females Monkeys Chimpanzees 11 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is not an excretory structure flame cell blood stomata kidney 12 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Manufactured food in the plants is transported through the phloem cambium cortex xylem 13 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Carbohydrates are stored in animal cells as maltase starch glycogen glucose 14 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In insects, the structure that performs the same function as the kidney in man is the Nephridium Flame cell Malphigian tubule Trachea 15 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a food web, tertiary consumers belong to which trophic level First Third Fourth Second 16 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME What is the term used to describe the sum total of biotic and abiotic factors in the environment of the organism? ecological niche habitat ecosystem biome 17 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The muscle cell fluid of an athlete was tested immediately after a 100m race and was found to contain a high concentration of lactic acid. 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