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School Portal Nigeria 1 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following instruments is used to measure wind speed? anemometer thermometer barometer hygrometer 2 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements is correct about organs? they are composed of specialized cells unicellular animals have few organs they are not found in plants they perform a certain overall function 3 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of closely related organism capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring are known as members of family class kingdom species 4 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following processes does not contribute towards growth? cell plasmolysis cell enlargement cell division cell differentiation 5 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following processes is not an example of a reflex action? reading beating of the heart sneezing blinking of the eye 6 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms is well adapted for fluid feeding? ants cockroach mosquito grasshopper 7 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A termite with a relatively large head and powerful Jaws is likely to be reproductive queen soldier king 8 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The order of prmary succession by plants in a very dry habitat is mesophytes – xerophytes – shrub xerophytes – shrub – mesophytes xerophytes – mesophyte – shrub mesophytes – shrub – xerophytes 9 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following practice can contribute towards the conservation of natural resources except contour ploughing establishment of Game reserves deforestation afforestation 10 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The transfer of ripe pollen grains from another to the stigma of the same flower is termed conjugation self-pollination fertilization reproduction 11 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The effects of environmental degradation caused by human activities can be controlled by the following measures except converting mining pits into fish ponds ( do nothing educating people reclaiming the land 12 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Population growth rate may be defined as the number of times an organism occurs within a given period number of a particular species per unit area net rate of nationality and mortality in the habitat ever a period mortality rate per unit area over a period 13 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Finger prints are useful in crime detection because finger prints are easy to make no two people have the same finger print the police have sophisticated fingerprint machines thieves may leave their prints at the scene of a crime 14 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The accepted concepts for theory of Natural selection does not include use and disuse of body parts struggle for existence survival of the fittest tendency for organisms to over produces 15 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following diseases is not hereditary scabies colour blindness haemophilia Albinism 16 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements about ecosystems is false? ecosystems must start with the capture of energy by autotrophs energy transfer from one trophic level to the other is not 100% efficient all the energy entering the ecosystem is placed on to decomposers the primary producers provide energy for herbivores and carnvores 17 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Evidence for evolution include the following except geographical distribution of organisms comparative anatomy mutation of genes fossil records 18 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms are the producers in an aquatic habitat? nektons benthons zooplanktons phytoplanktons 19 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following substances is not a conservable natural resource? air minerals soil water 20 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A seed of a flower plant can best be described as developed ovary the embryo and endosperm radicle and plumule the developed ovule 21 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In the binomial system of naming organism, the second name is called the scientific name generic name common name specific name 22 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these diseases cannot be spread by an insect? malaria measles trypanosomiasis cholera 23 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pH values is the best for the action of the emzymes – renin and pepsin in the stomach? pH8 pH2 pH7 pH9 24 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the organisms does not show colour adaptation to its environment? chameleon fish toad earthworm 25 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The persistent presence of glucose in a person’s urine indicates malfunctioning of the bladder pancreas stomach heart 26 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following inherited conditions usually shows incomplete dominance? sickle cell anaemia baldness tongue rolling ability haemophilia 27 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements best describe pollination? The transfer of pollen grain from anther to the ovary the anther of a flower to the stigma of another flower of a different species anther to stigmas stigmas to stamens 28 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Two organelles directly involved in mitotic cell division are ribosome and nucleus nucleus and mitochondrion centriole and goligi apparatus nucleus and centriole 29 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms is not considered as a parasitic plant? cassytha mistletoe rhizopus dodder 30 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The mode of nutrition common to green plants is holozoic autorophic saprophytic heterotrophic 31 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following physical factor is likely to affect the distribution of plants in a pond? temperature wind humidity light 32 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The axial skeleton is composed of the atlas and axis radius and ulna skull and vertebral column limbs and girdies 33 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The importance of the concentration of chloroplast in the palisade layer of the leaf is for maximum exposure to carbon dioxide water light oxygen 34 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following enzymes is not one of the main classes of enzymes proteases lipases amylases sucrose 35 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following substances has the highest amount of energy in joules per unit weight? proteins vitamins fats carbohydrate 36 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An organisms which maintains a constant temperature irrespective of environment temperature fluctuation is an amphibian a fish an insect a mammal 37 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The ear pinna is strengthened by turgor pressure cartilage bone blood pressure 38 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms is a primary consumer dog fungal grass sheep 39 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A man suffering from obesity must avoid meals containing carrots and oranges rice and beans beef and fish margarine and butter 40 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What does the chemical composition of the genetic material of all living organisms consist of? follide stimulating hormone adenosine diphosphate adenosine triphosphate deoxyribonucleic acid 41 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The colour that is associated with a positive iodine test is blue-black yellow brown red 42 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The order of evolutionary trend in plants is Spermatophyta, pteridophyta, Bryophyta and Thallophyta Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Spermatophyta and Thallophyta Thallophyta, Bryphyta, Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Bryophyte, Thallophyta, Pteridophyta, Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta 43 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms feeds both autotrophically and heterotrophically? paramecium mucor hydra euglena 44 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following life processes are common to both plants and animals except photosynthesis respiration growth reproduction 45 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms has kidney as their excretory organ? fishes, amphibians, birds, man fishes, reptiles, birds, tape worms fishes, amphibians, annelids, insect fishes, protozoans, amphibians, man 46 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The sudden change in a gene structure or chromosome number in an organism likely to cause known as migration mitosis mutation meiosis 47 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The first step in carrying out ecological studies in a terrestrial habitat as quadrat sampling collective of organisms measuring abiotic factors. mapping the area 48 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements about the development of the foetus is not correct? food and oxygen are carried across the placenta to the embryo’s blood. the circulatory system of foetus is directly connected to the maternal blood vessels the foetus is surrounded by a water sac the foetus depends on the mother’s blood for its food and oxygen 49 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Plant hormones includes the following except cytokinin gibberellin insulin auxin 50 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Territoriality is a phenomenon among animals and plants plants of different species lower organisms male animals with a group of females NameEmail Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Practice also: SS 3 AGRIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 DATA PROCESSING PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMMERCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CIVIC EDUCATION PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO)