JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS School Portal NG51 years agoJAMB +1 685 Views 0% 15 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 Use the diagram shown to answer the question. After an hour, the level of water in the thistle funnel will fall rise remain the same double 2 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The feeding relationship among a set of members of a community is referred to as _______? a food web pyramid of energy pyramid of member a food chain 3 / 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? Vas deferens Seminal Vesicle Prostate gland Cowper's gland 4 / 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 parasitic saprohytic carnivores Holozoic 5 / 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. 6 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following serves as the brain box in man skeleton skull spinal column head 7 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Cytokinesis of mitosis is a process that ensures that daughter cell inherit new genetic combinations there is distribution of a complete set of genes into each daughter cell worn out organelles are excluded from daughter cells each daughter cell gets the necessary organelles 8 / 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 Reproduces in living cells causes diseases in plants and animals It exists in a variety of shapes 9 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following parts are involved in breathing process, except mouth diaphragm nostrils ribs 10 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Nitrogen is released into the atmosphere when ________ when lightning strike plants absorbs mineral salt through plant uptake sugar is completely broken down 11 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Coloration of the eye is ______ variation adaptive physiological morphological recessive 12 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Gets rid of excess water Produces Enzymes Stores and digest food Gets rid of excreta 13 / 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 Materials and hormones are transported in fluid form Their materials are transported in the same vessels The transport medium is made up of only tissues 14 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The bacteria that is found in the root nodules of leguminous plants is nostoc clostridium rhizobium azotobacter 15 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The diagram shows that the organisms are hermaphrodite viviparous oviparous ovoviparous 16 / 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 able to carry out photosynthesis using carbon dioxide in the pond water able to carry out holozoic nutrition not overcrowded better adapted to life in darkness than to life in light 17 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Red blood cells were found to have burst open after being placed in distill for an hour. This phenomenon is known as haemolysis plasmolysis diffusion wilting 18 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An animal which is active during the day is known as a terrestrial animal homortacmic animal nocturnal animal diurnal animal 19 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS DNA in eukaryotic cells is contained in the central vacuole lysosome golgi body nucleus 20 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The flippers of a whale and the fins of a fish are examples of co-evolution convergent evolution divergent evolution continuous variation 21 / 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 taxis irritability 22 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The period of inactivity seen in some animals during long period of heat or drought is Hibernation Adaptation Migration Aestivation 23 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Raw materials required by green plants to manufacture their food are inorganic substances mainly fluids mainly gases living materials 24 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The attachment of the embryo to the wall of the uterus is called Placentation Implantation Gametogenesis Ovulation 25 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following protects the essential parts of the flower at bud stage? Stamens Carpels Petals Sepals 26 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The host of Taenia Solium is _________ cow pig sheep dog 27 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following animals has homodont dentition? Man Lizard Pigeon Rat 28 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the organisms represent are notable agricultural pests I and III I and IV II and III II and IV 29 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of organisms of the same kind inhabiting the same environment is called habitat species ecosystem population 30 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following plant hormone is responsible for ripening of fruits? Ethylene Gibberellins Abscisic acid Cytokinins 31 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Size, colour and fingerprints are examples of ______ physiological variation adaptive variation discontinuous variation morphological variation 32 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The population of different organisms that exist together in a habitat is called community biosphere biomes ecology 33 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An example of an endospermous seed is cashew nut cotton seed been seed maize grain 34 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An accurate identification of a rapist can be carried out by conducting RNA analysis behavioural tests blood group test DNA analysis 35 / 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 36 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following theories was NOT considered by Darwin in his evolutionary theory? survival of the fitest variation use and disuse competition 37 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A bacteria that is spherically shaped is called? diplobacillus coccus vibrio bacillus 38 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The four classes of cnidarian include the following except Scyphozoa Turbellaria Anthozoa Cubozoa 39 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is a behavioural adaptation that protects prey from predators? Hibernation Dormancy Shedding of leaves Secreting irritating fluid 40 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram below to answer the question that follow anemometer wind vane hygrometer rain gauge 41 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The yellowish colored liquid component of blood that normally holds the blood cells in suspension is serum water plasma thrombocyte 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 modification in structure, physiology and behaviour of plant and animal is called ______ variation evolution succession adaption 44 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The breeding posture illustrated in the mating reproductive swimming courtship display amplexus 45 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram shown to answer the question. In plant cells, the role of the membrane is played by the nucleolus mitochondrion cell wall cytoplasm 46 / 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 family species 47 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram shown to answer the question. The experiment above is used to demonstrate the process of osmosis transportation diffusion water culture 48 / 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 is the outermost part of the cell suspends all cell organelles regulates the amount of energy in the cell 49 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The level of organism in spirogyra and volvox is organ Tissue cell system 50 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The path followed by air as it passes through the lungs in mammals is trachea ⇢ bronchi ⇢ bronchioles ⇢ alveoli bronchi ⇢ trachea ⇢ alveoli ⇢ bronchioles bronchioles ⇢ alveoli ⇢ bronchi ⇢ trachea trachea ⇢ bronchioles ⇢ bronchi ⇢alveoli 51 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS How many days does is used for incubation of an egg to release chick 20 22 23 21 52 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An organism which exhibit extracellular digestion is Paramecium Amoeba Spirogyra Rhizopus 53 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What is the primary function of cofactors? To aid in enzyme function To synthesize enzymes To break down old enzymes To inhibit enzymes 54 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An example of a non-bio degrable pollutants is dung ceramics woods bones 55 / 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 moves in both arteries and veins The heart contains auricles and ventricles It passes twice through the heart in a complete circuit 56 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following conditions is NOT necessary for photosynthesis to take place? Carbon(II)oxide ChlorophyII Carbon(IV)oxide Light 57 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The longest bone in the body is the humerous scapula tibia femur 58 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Ability to taste PTC in some individuals is a character that is morphological acquired sex-linked heritable 59 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Evidence of evolution include the following except mutation of genes geographical distribution of organisms fossil records comparative anatomy 60 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The hormones secreted by pancreas serves to Raise the level of calcium in the blood Lower blood glucose level Make the body react to emergencies Facilitate the development of facial hairs Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback School Portal NG +1
