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