JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS School Portal NG 9 months ago JAMB 0% 185 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 feeding relationship among a set of members of a community is referred to as _______? pyramid of energy pyramid of member a food web a food chain 2 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS How many days does is used for incubation of an egg to release chick 21 20 22 23 3 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following protects the essential parts of the flower at bud stage? Carpels Petals Stamens Sepals 4 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Strong short and concical beak to pick and crush seeds is an adaptive feature of duck owl weaver bird hawk 5 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Nitrogen is released into the atmosphere when ________ plants absorbs mineral salt through plant uptake sugar is completely broken down when lightning strike 6 / 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 7 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic? Amoeba and paramecium Volvox and Rhizopus Euglena and chlamydomonas Nostoc and plasmodium 8 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The insects in which the maxillae are modified into a long coiled proboscis is mosquito grasshopper butterfly housefly 9 / 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 ⇢ bronchi ⇢ bronchioles ⇢ alveoli bronchioles ⇢ alveoli ⇢ bronchi ⇢ trachea trachea ⇢ bronchioles ⇢ bronchi ⇢alveoli 10 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The level of organism in spirogyra and volvox is Tissue cell organ system 11 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS DNA in eukaryotic cells is contained in the central vacuole nucleus lysosome golgi body 12 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The modification in structure, physiology and behaviour of plant and animal is called ______ adaption variation succession evolution 13 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In which of the following groups of vertebrates is parental care mostly exhibited? Reptilia Aves Amphibia Mammalia 14 / 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 15 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The path followed by air as it passes through the lungs in mammals cochlea pinna vestibular system perilymph 16 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Blood circulation in a mammal is said to be double because The heart contains auricles and ventricles It moves in both arteries and veins It circulates in both the hands and other organs It passes twice through the heart in a complete circuit 17 / 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 family species class kingdom 18 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An organism which exhibit extracellular digestion is Rhizopus Paramecium Spirogyra Amoeba 19 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS One important characteristics of green plant is that they Are autotropic Are usually motile possess specialized sense organs Respond slowly to stimuli 20 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Animals are said to gregarious when they give an alarm to alert others to show the normal protective behaviour of the group when danger threatens they are of the same species moving together in a group they survive adverse conditions of cold weather they transmit information from one individual to another 21 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The four classes of cnidarian include the following except Turbellaria Anthozoa Cubozoa Scyphozoa 22 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What is the primary function of cofactors? To inhibit enzymes To synthesize enzymes To break down old enzymes To aid in enzyme function 23 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following describes the function of lymph Engulfing Body defence Production of antibodies Temperature regulation 24 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Ability to taste PTC in some individuals is a character that is acquired morphological heritable sex-linked 25 / 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 taxis locomotion irritability 26 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The curvature movement of plants in response to the stimulus of water is called geotropism Phototropism thigmotropism hydrotropism 27 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Inheritable character/features possessed by an organism can be referred to as Locus Allelo morphs Genes Traits 28 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following animals has homodont dentition? Man Lizard Rat Pigeon 29 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When an ovary is placed on the receptacle above the other floral parts it is referred to as inferior ovary superior ovary half inferior ovary half superior ovary 30 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What it the function of contractile vacuole in paramecium Gets rid of excreta Stores and digest food Gets rid of excess water Produces Enzymes 31 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Use the diagram to answer the question. The diagram shows that the organisms are oviparous ovoviparous hermaphrodite viviparous 32 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The insect trapping movements of the leaves of the venus fly trap is a behavioural adaptation for support surviving adverse weather conditions obtaining food dormancy 33 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Evidence of evolution include the following except mutation of genes fossil records comparative anatomy geographical distribution of organisms 34 / 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 saprophytic nutrition holophytic nutrition symbiotic nutrition holozoic nutrition 35 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following plant hormone is responsible for ripening of fruits? Cytokinins Gibberellins Abscisic acid Ethylene 36 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The bacteria that is found in the root nodules of leguminous plants is azotobacter nostoc clostridium rhizobium 37 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these organisms partly digest its food extracellularly? Housefly Mosquito Termite Cockroach 38 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When sickle cell carrier marries a normal woman, the probability of them having a normal offspring is .1 0.75 0.5 0.25 39 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the organisms represent are notable agricultural pests II and IV II and III I and IV I and III 40 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these is not a sampling method for determining population size? capture and re-capture method complete census transect method systematic sampling 41 / 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 Dictating the formation of a protein by a gene in a chromosome Separation of homologous chromosomes into four daughter cells Separation of gametes during fertilization 42 / 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 43 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A tissue is composed of a group of systems tissues similar cells related organs 44 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Agglutination is the _______ of the ________ coagulation, water coagulation, white bloodcell coagulation, red blood cell white blood cells, red blood cell 45 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An example of a non-bio degrable pollutants is dung ceramics woods bones 46 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A bacteria that is spherically shaped is called? diplobacillus coccus bacillus vibrio 47 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A man who is heterozygous for the disease haemophilia marries a woman who is double recessive for haemophilia. What percentage of their offspring would have the disease? 25% 50% 0% 75% 48 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Raw materials required by green plants to manufacture their food are living materials inorganic substances mainly fluids mainly gases 49 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following is not a transmitable character in plants Life span Habit of growth Haemophilia Resistance to environmental factors 50 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The part of the mammalian ear responsible for the maintenance of balance is the perilymph pinna vestibular system cochlea 51 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The function of pith in plant is 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 Absorb mineral salt and nutrient from the soil Removal of waste product from the plant 52 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following conditions is NOT necessary for photosynthesis to take place? Light Carbon(IV)oxide Carbon(II)oxide ChlorophyII 53 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An example of an endospermous seed is cotton seed been seed maize grain cashew nut 54 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS When a cell is placed in solution and the size of the cell increases, the concentration of solution is said to be hypertonic dilute hypotonic isotonic 55 / 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 regulates the amount of energy in the cell suspends all cell organelles 56 / 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 remain the same double fall rise 57 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A population is best described as A group of animals and plants living together A group of the same species of organisms living together Different species of wild animals A group of insects and grasses 58 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of organisms of the same kind inhabiting the same environment is called population ecosystem habitat species 59 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The period of inactivity seen in some animals during long period of heat or drought is Aestivation Adaptation Hibernation Migration 60 / 60 Category: JAMB BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An example of organism which exists as a colony is Volvox euglena paramecium chlamydomonas Email Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Send feedback {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. 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