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The athlete must have carried out anaerobic respiration during the race athlete must have eaten food containing a lactic acid athlete must have injected lactic acid into his blood just before the race athlete must have inhaled lactic acid from the environment during the race 3 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In plants, the structures that play roles similar to the arteries and veins of animals are the Root hairs and xylem Xylem and Phloem Lenticels and phloem roots and stems 4 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Ribosomes are found in all living cells. What is their function? intracellular transport synthesis of proteins excretion of waste products cellular respiration 5 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The primary structure responsible for pumping blood for circulation through the mammalian circulatory systems is the Veins Left ventricle Right auricle Arteries 6 / 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? 75%red and 25% white 100% red 100% white 50% red and 50% white 7 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME An ecosystem is composed of all of the following except: Temperature Plants Meadows Animals 8 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Genetically modified food products have not become universally accepted because the technology can be applied only in developed countries they are usually costlier than others produced by conventional means their effect on human consumers is not yet fully understood they are not tasty as others produced by conventional means 9 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The sterile individuals in the honey bee are known as None of these Drone Workers Queens 10 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Principles of heredity can be applied in one of these chemistry medicine biology law 11 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of these does not have respiratory and circulatory systems molluscs insects nematods annelids 12 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In insects, the structure that performs the same function as the kidney in man is the Trachea Malphigian tubule Flame cell Nephridium 13 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is not an excretory structure blood stomata flame cell kidney 14 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In bony fishes, the swim bladder is used for absorbing more water when the fish is about to descend to a lower level adjusting the weight of the fish when swimming at different levels extracting oxygen from water which enters the mouth of the fish equalizing fluid pressures between the fish and the surrounding water 15 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following is used mainly for balancing in fish? The anal fin The dorsal fin The caudal fin The pectoral fin 16 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Circulation of blood to all parts of the body excepts the lungs is through Pulmonary circulation The pulmonary artery Systemic circulation The lymphatic system 17 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In the mammal, the autonomic system consists of sympathetic and parasympathetic systems brain and spinal nerves brain and cranial nerves spinal cord and spinal nerves 18 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The cocoon into which an earthworm lays its egg is produced in the peristomium clitellum chaeta prostomium 19 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The rhesus factor of blood was first identified in a category of Chimpanzees Monkeys Human females Human males 20 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Octopus is popularly known as __________ fish jelly shark devil cray 21 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The random way genes recombine during meiosis and fertilization leads to genome phenotype genotype genetic variation 22 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Manufactured food in the plants is transported through the xylem cortex cambium phloem 23 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following factors is not associated with aquatic habitat Temperature Light intensity Humidity Wave action 24 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Plants that are adapted to grow in dry land where water content is low are Xerophytes Hydrophytes Mesophytes Halophytes 25 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME S phase in growth curve is known as? long phase end Phase shot phase rapid phase 26 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Maize is best stored against insect attack in humid metal tanks while still on the cob on raised platform in fumigated silos 27 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The roots hairs are conducting liquid strength and support absorption of water and salt penetration into the soil 28 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following is NOT a function of the nucleus of a cell? It is a reservoir of energy for the cell It controls the life processes of the cell It stores and carries hereditary information It translates genetic information for the manufacture of proteins 29 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The random way genes recombine during meiosis and fertilization leads to genome phenotype genotype genetic variation 30 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of this is not a shape of fingerprints loop circles whorls arches 31 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of this is not a continuous variation tongue rolling weight height skin colour 32 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a food web, tertiary consumers belong to which trophic level Third Fourth Second First 33 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Spear grass has underground structure called corm rhizomes tap roots bulbs 34 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a cell, the genes are carried by lysosomes Chromatin threads Nuclear membrane Mitochondria 35 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The order of food passage in the digestive system is Ileum-Cecum-Colon-Rectum Colon-Ileum-Cecum-Rectum Ileum-Colon-Cecum-Rectum Colon-Cecum-Ileum-Rectum 36 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME A sudden change in a gene or genes is called variation heredity mutation fertilization 37 / 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 Lean Lamarck Gregor Mendel Charles Darwin Wallace 38 / 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? biome ecological niche habitat ecosystem 39 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Daughters receives their X-chromosome from their relative mother father siblings 40 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The division of nucleus is known as isogamy cytokinesis karyokinesis isopomy 41 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Carbohydrates are stored in animal cells as maltase starch glucose glycogen 42 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is usually worm-like, cylindrical or flattened nematods annelids molluscs insects 43 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The hereditary factor of the material for inheritance is sex gene ovum organ 44 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The genetic make- up of an organism is called phenotype genotype variation gene 45 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of these animals is not metamerically segmented centipede shark tapeworm earthworm 46 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The sexual reproductive units produced by mature individuals of sexually reproducing species of organism is called ova zygotes sperms gametes 47 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The reproduction of cell is controlled by which of the following: RNA DNA Mitosis mRNA 48 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME What happens to a man whose pancreas has been surgically removed? the glycogen content of the liver would increase his weight would increase appreciably the level of blood sugar would increase his blood pressure would decrease 49 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following are usually worm-like, cylindrical or flattened insects annelids molluscs nematods 50 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following constitutes the main internal tissue of leaf? Vascular bundle Lower epidermis Mesophyll Cuticle Your score is 0% Restart quiz