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