BIOLOGY POST UTME QUESTIONS & ANSWERS HomePOST UTME/POST JAMB Past Question & AnswersBIOLOGY POST UTME QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Practice this BIOLOGY POST UTME exam questions and answers Our experts have provided correct answers to these questions. 0% BIOLOGY POST UTME (APP) BIOLOGY POST UTME BIOLOGY POST UTMEPractice with our Post UTME CBT for Universities, Polytechnics, College of Agriculture, College ofMedicine, College of Technology and College of Education and pass your examination. 1 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following is NOT a function of the nucleus of a cell? It controls the life processes of the cell It stores and carries hereditary information It translates genetic information for the manufacture of proteins It is a reservoir of energy for the cell 2 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The order of food passage in the digestive system is Colon-Ileum-Cecum-Rectum Ileum-Colon-Cecum-Rectum Ileum-Cecum-Colon-Rectum Colon-Cecum-Ileum-Rectum 3 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following factors is not associated with aquatic habitat Temperature Humidity Light intensity Wave action 4 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is usually worm-like, cylindrical or flattened molluscs insects annelids nematods 5 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The sexual reproductive units produced by mature individuals of sexually reproducing species of organism is called gametes ova sperms zygotes 6 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is not an excretory structure kidney blood flame cell stomata 7 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a food web, tertiary consumers belong to which trophic level Second Third Fourth First 8 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In the mammal, the autonomic system consists of brain and spinal nerves sympathetic and parasympathetic systems brain and cranial nerves spinal cord and spinal nerves 9 / 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? ecosystem habitat biome ecological niche 10 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME An ecosystem is composed of all of the following except: Plants Meadows Temperature Animals 11 / 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. Explain what could have caused this. The athlete must have eaten food containing a lactic acid athlete must have carried out anaerobic respiration during the race 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 12 / 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 Wallace Charles Darwin 13 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a food web, tertiary consumers belong to which trophic level Third Fourth Second First 14 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of this is not a shape of fingerprints arches whorls circles loop 15 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The primary structure responsible for pumping blood for circulation through the mammalian circulatory systems is the Veins Arteries Left ventricle Right auricle 16 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Manufactured food in the plants is transported through the xylem phloem cortex cambium 17 / 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 18 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME A sudden change in a gene or genes is called variation fertilization mutation heredity 19 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The roots hairs are penetration into the soil strength and support conducting liquid absorption of water and salt 20 / 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 21 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following are usually worm-like, cylindrical or flattened nematods molluscs annelids insects 22 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The hereditary factor of the material for inheritance is gene organ sex ovum 23 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of these does not have respiratory and circulatory systems insects molluscs nematods annelids 24 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME S phase in growth curve is known as? rapid phase long phase end Phase shot phase 25 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a cell, the genes are carried by Chromatin threads Nuclear membrane lysosomes Mitochondria 26 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Daughters receives their X-chromosome from their siblings mother relative father 27 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Principles of heredity can be applied in one of these biology law medicine chemistry 28 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The cocoon into which an earthworm lays its egg is produced in the peristomium prostomium chaeta clitellum 29 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Maize is best stored against insect attack on raised platform in fumigated silos while still on the cob in humid metal tanks 30 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Spear grass has underground structure called rhizomes corm tap roots bulbs 31 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In plants, the structures that play roles similar to the arteries and veins of animals are the Lenticels and phloem Root hairs and xylem Xylem and Phloem roots and stems 32 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The division of nucleus is known as karyokinesis isopomy isogamy cytokinesis 33 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The genetic make- up of an organism is called variation gene phenotype genotype 34 / 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 equalizing fluid pressures between the fish and the surrounding water extracting oxygen from water which enters the mouth of the fish adjusting the weight of the fish when swimming at different levels 35 / 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 not tasty as others produced by conventional means their effect on human consumers is not yet fully understood they are usually costlier than others produced by conventional means 36 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Plants that are adapted to grow in dry land where water content is low are Halophytes Mesophytes Hydrophytes Xerophytes 37 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Octopus is popularly known as __________ fish shark devil cray jelly 38 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The reproduction of cell is controlled by which of the following: DNA RNA mRNA Mitosis 39 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In insects, the structure that performs the same function as the kidney in man is the Flame cell Nephridium Trachea Malphigian tubule 40 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The rhesus factor of blood was first identified in a category of Chimpanzees Monkeys Human females Human males 41 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME What happens to a man whose pancreas has been surgically removed? the level of blood sugar would increase his blood pressure would decrease his weight would increase appreciably the glycogen content of the liver would increase 42 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of these animals is not metamerically segmented shark earthworm centipede tapeworm 43 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The sterile individuals in the honey bee are known as Drone Workers Queens None of these 44 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Circulation of blood to all parts of the body excepts the lungs is through Systemic circulation The pulmonary artery Pulmonary circulation The lymphatic system 45 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of this is not a continuous variation height weight tongue rolling skin colour 46 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The random way genes recombine during meiosis and fertilization leads to genotype genome genetic variation phenotype 47 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Carbohydrates are stored in animal cells as maltase starch glycogen glucose 48 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The random way genes recombine during meiosis and fertilization leads to genotype genetic variation phenotype genome 49 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following constitutes the main internal tissue of leaf? Cuticle Mesophyll Lower epidermis Vascular bundle 50 / 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% white 100% red 50% red and 50% white Your score is 0% Restart quiz Share this post: Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Share on WhatsApp
