JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS School Portal NG51 years agoJAMB 1+ 282 Views 0% 2 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 An accurate identification of a rapist can be carried out by conducting behavioural tests DNA analysis blood group test RNA analysis 2 / 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 3 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Gets rid of excess water Gets rid of excreta Stores and digest food Produces Enzymes 4 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The yellowish colored liquid component of blood that normally holds the blood cells in suspension is plasma water thrombocyte serum 5 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The common thing in plant and animal cell is centrioles nucleus cell wall chloroplast 6 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The four classes of cnidarian include the following except Turbellaria Scyphozoa Cubozoa Anthozoa 7 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these organisms partly digest its food extracellularly? Termite Mosquito Housefly Cockroach 8 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which organ removes the largest amount of excess water from the body? Liver Skin Kidney Lung 9 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a behavioural adaptation that protects prey from predators? Shedding of leaves Hibernation Secreting irritating fluid Dormancy 10 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The bacteria that is found in the root nodules of leguminous plants is rhizobium nostoc azotobacter clostridium 11 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The modification in structure, physiology and behaviour of plant and animal is called ______ evolution succession variation adaption 12 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What is the primary function of cofactors? To inhibit enzymes To break down old enzymes To aid in enzyme function To synthesize enzymes 13 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following choices correctly describes the composition of the cell membrane? contains only lipids contains only proteins contains lipids and cytosol contains lipids and protein 14 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The flame cells are used for excretion in Bacteria Volvox Nematode Fluke 15 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The flippers of a whale and the fins of a fish are examples of co-evolution divergent evolution convergent evolution continuous variation 16 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these is not a sampling method for determining population size? transect method complete census capture and re-capture method systematic sampling 17 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Physiological adaptation to very dry conditions in animal demonstrates Rejuvenation Xeromorphism Aestivation Hibernation 18 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of organisms of the same kind inhabiting the same environment is called habitat population species ecosystem 19 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Coloration of the eye is ______ variation adaptive morphological recessive physiological 20 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When sickle cell carrier marries a normal woman, the probability of them having a normal offspring is 0.5 0.75 .1 0.25 21 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Size, colour and fingerprints are examples of ______ physiological variation adaptive variation morphological variation discontinuous variation 22 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Gets rid of excess water Produces Enzymes Gets rid of excreta Stores and digest food 23 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The hormones secreted by pancreas serves to Raise the level of calcium in the blood Make the body react to emergencies Lower blood glucose level Facilitate the development of facial hairs 24 / 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 saprohytic carnivores Holozoic parasitic 25 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A boy who is fond of swimming in a pond finds himself passing urine with traces of blood. He is like to have contracted? salmonellosis schistosomiasis poliomyelitis onchocerciasis 26 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following protects the essential parts of the flower at bud stage? Petals Stamens Sepals Carpels 27 / 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? Seminal Vesicle Prostate gland Cowper's gland Vas deferens 28 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question that followsThe instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure spread of wind direction of wind relative humidity 29 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS One of the major ways in which the blood is able to defend the body against disease causing organisms is Translocation Absorption of fatty acids and glycerol Clumping Single circulation 30 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An example of a non-bio degrable pollutants is dung bones woods ceramics 31 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The function of pith in plant is Absorb mineral salt and nutrient from the soil 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. trap chlorophyll from the sunlight Removal of waste product from the plant 32 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The curvature movement of plants in response to the stimulus of water is called thigmotropism Phototropism geotropism hydrotropism 33 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS DNA in eukaryotic cells is contained in the central vacuole lysosome golgi body nucleus 34 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Evidence of evolution include the following except fossil records comparative anatomy geographical distribution of organisms mutation of genes 35 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following are example of morphological variation except size color fingerprint ability to taste PTC 36 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not a transmitable character in plants Habit of growth Resistance to environmental factors Haemophilia Life span 37 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The type of nutrition shown by spirogyra is Holozoic Holophytic Symbiosis Chemosynthetic 38 / 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 inferior ovary inferior ovary half superior ovary 39 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The breeding posture illustrated in the courtship display reproductive swimming mating amplexus 40 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Nitrogen is released into the atmosphere when ________ through plant uptake sugar is completely broken down when lightning strike plants absorbs mineral salt 41 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The diagram shows that the organisms are hermaphrodite ovoviparous viviparous oviparous 42 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Agglutination is the _______ of the ________ coagulation, white bloodcell coagulation, water coagulation, red blood cell white blood cells, red blood cell 43 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The period of inactivity seen in some animals during long period of heat or drought is Adaptation Aestivation Hibernation Migration 44 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The cytoplasm of a cell is considered a very important component because it is the outermost part of the cell is solely responsible for cell division suspends all cell organelles regulates the amount of energy in the cell 45 / 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 class kingdom species family 46 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Cytokinesis of mitosis is a process that ensures that daughter cell inherit new genetic combinations worn out organelles are excluded from daughter cells each daughter cell gets the necessary organelles there is distribution of a complete set of genes into each daughter cell 47 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following scenarios is an example of cohesion? Water molecules stay on the tip of a pine needle because the water is attracted to the surface of the needle. Water sticks to the walls of blood vessels. Water molecules stick to the surface of a mirror. Water molecules stick to one another and form a bead 48 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In which of the following species is the biomass of an individual the smallest? Agama sp In which of the following species is the biomass of an individual the smallest? Spirogvra sp Bufo sp 49 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A population is best described as A group of insects and grasses Different species of wild animals A group of animals and plants living together A group of the same species of organisms living together 50 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following conditions is NOT necessary for photosynthesis to take place? Carbon(II)oxide Carbon(IV)oxide ChlorophyII Light 51 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The path followed by air as it passes through the lungs in mammals is bronchi ⇢ trachea ⇢ alveoli ⇢ bronchioles trachea ⇢ bronchioles ⇢ bronchi ⇢alveoli bronchioles ⇢ alveoli ⇢ bronchi ⇢ trachea trachea ⇢ bronchi ⇢ bronchioles ⇢ alveoli 52 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following plant hormone is responsible for ripening of fruits? Abscisic acid Cytokinins Gibberellins Ethylene 53 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following describes the function of lymph Engulfing Temperature regulation Body defence Production of antibodies 54 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A bacteria that is spherically shaped is called? diplobacillus coccus bacillus vibrio 55 / 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 holozoic nutrition saprophytic nutrition symbiotic nutrition 56 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic? Euglena and chlamydomonas Amoeba and paramecium Volvox and Rhizopus Nostoc and plasmodium 57 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The attachment of the embryo to the wall of the uterus is called Placentation Ovulation Implantation Gametogenesis 58 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A virus can sometimes be regarded as a living organism because it Is easily visible with the aid of an electron microscope It exists in a variety of shapes Reproduces in living cells causes diseases in plants and animals 59 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The insect trapping movements of the leaves of the venus fly trap is a behavioural adaptation for obtaining food surviving adverse weather conditions dormancy support 60 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In which of the following groups of vertebrates is parental care mostly exhibited? 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