WAEC - Biology (2005)

  • 1
    Which of the following groups embraces the rest?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Kingdom
  • 2
    The group mollusca is characterized by the presence of
    Respondre
    (D)
    Soft, non-segmented
  • 3
    A virus can sometimes be regarded as a living organism because it
    Respondre
    (C)
    reproduces in living cells
  • 4
    A mayor difference between plants and animals is that
    Respondre
    (A)
    there is free movement in animals while this is limited in plants
  • 5
    Which of the following adaptation is no found in fruits and seeds dispersed by the win '?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Spongy coats
  • 6
    The main similarity between unicellular and multicellular organisms is that both
    Respondre
    (A)
    perform all life activities
  • 7
    One important characteristic of green plants is that they
    Respondre
    (C)
    are autotrophic
  • 8
    A serious disadvantage of complexity in higher organisms is
    Respondre
    (A)
    a high demand for food and energy
  • 9
    Which of these organs can be considered vestigial in humans but functional in other mammals? The
    Respondre
    (B)
    appendix
  • 10
    Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Chlamydomonas and Euglena
  • 11
    Which of the following pairs of organisms exist as colonies?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Pandorina and Volvox
  • 12
    Which of the following Best explains why It is difficult to see clearly in dim light?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Too little light reaches the retina and so the cones may not be stimulated at all
  • 13
    In active transport, molecules move against a concentration gradient, therefore
    Respondre
    (A)
    molecules move from a region of low concentration to a region of high concentration
  • 14
    Which of the following substance pass through the root cell membrane by osmosis?
    Respondre
    (D)
    water
  • 15
    Which of the following statements defines plasmolysis?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Shrinking away of the cytoplasm from the plant cell wall
  • 16
    Raw materials required by green plants to manufacture their food are
    Respondre
    (B)
    inorganic substances
  • 17
    The role of ATP include all the following activities except
    Respondre
    (D)
    producing water during aerobic respiration
  • 18
    The basis of growth involves the following processes except
    Respondre
    (A)
    cell reduction
  • 19
    Which of the following statements is true about movement of the forearm? In
    Respondre
    (B)
    bending the arm, the biceps contract and the triceps relax
  • 20
    Only specially adapted micro-organisms are found in
    Respondre
    (A)
    salty water
  • 21
    Which of the following organisms causes syphilis?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Treponema pallidlum
  • 22
    In plant respiration occurs in
    Respondre
    (D)
    all living cells
  • 23
    A faster colour change of a dry cobalt chloride paper affixed to the lower surface of a leaf than the upper one, indicates that
    Respondre
    (B)
    the lower surface of the leaf has more stomata
  • 24
    Which of the following takes place when a person’s body temperature rises above 37oC
    Respondre
    (C)
    Sweating and vasodilation
  • 25
    Which of the following glands secretes a substance into the blood stream of a frightened person?
    Respondre
    (A)
    Adrenal glands
  • 26
    Reading the verdict of a case by a judge or magistrate is an example of
    Respondre
    (D)
    a voluntary action
  • 27
    Which of the following describes an example of fertilization in higher organisms?
    Respondre
    (A)
    Fusion of sperm and egg nuclei
  • 28
    When both ovaries of the human female ovulate simultaneously and both ova are fertilized, then
    Respondre
    (B)
    fraternal twins are produced
  • 29
    Which of the following statements is not true of the light stage of photosynthesis?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Carbon (IV) oxide is reduced by hydrogen atoms in NADPH2
  • 30
    Which of the following elements is required in large amounts by plants
    Respondre
    (D)
    Phosphorus
  • 31
    Which of the following substances has the highest amount of energy in joules per unit weight?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Fats
  • 32
    Which of the following elements is required in large amounts by plants
    Respondre
    (D)
    Phosphorus
  • 33
    Which of the following juices contains the enzyme ptyalin?
    Respondre
    (D)
    Saliva
  • 34
    Trees in savannah habitats usually have heavy thick bark which mainly
    Respondre
    (A)
    reduces the rate of transpiration
  • 35
    In the marine food web, the source of energy to the producer comes from
    Respondre
    (C)
    sun
  • 36
    A population is best described as
    Respondre
    (A)
    a group of the same species of organisms living together
  • 37
    Possession of strong adhesives is a feature of animals living in/on
    Respondre
    (B)
    rocky shores
  • 38
    A stable self-sustaining environment produced by an interaction between the biotic and abiotic components is best described as
    Respondre
    (C)
    an ecosystem
  • 39
    Which of the following factors is not associated with aquatic habitats?
    Respondre
    (D)
    Edaphic
  • 40
    Which of the following instruments is used to measure the speed of a stream?
    Respondre
    (A)
    Simple float
  • 41
    In an ecosystem the organism which changes light energy into stored chemical energy is the
    Respondre
    (C)
    producer
  • 42
    Which of the following processes does not contribute to the maintenance of the nitrogen content of the soil?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Denitrification
  • 43
    Which of the following organisms is well adapted for fluid feeding?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Mosquito
  • 44
    The density-dependent factors that operate to regulate a population size may include the following except
    Respondre
    (B)
    fire outbreak
  • 45
    Which of the following infections is unlikely to respond to antibiotic treatment?
    Respondre
    (C)
    Measles
  • 46
    Algal bloom depletes oxygen content of bodies of water polluted by
    Respondre
    (C)
    raw sewage disposal
  • 47
    Conservation of wild life is necessary mainly because
    Respondre
    (D)
    it helps to prevent extinction of species
  • 48
    Which of the following is not a means of conservation?
    Respondre
    (D)
    Burning of vegetation before cropping
  • 49
    Which of the following statements about mutation is true?
    Respondre
    (B)
    The genotype is affected
  • 50
    Variation which exhibits a wide range from one extreme to the other with very little difference between the intermediates is described as
    Respondre
    (C)
    continuous
  • 51
    Which of the following is an example of physiological variation?
    Respondre
    (A)
    Blood groups
  • 52
    A person with blood group B can only donate blood to individuals with blood groups
    Respondre
    (B)
    B and AB
  • 53
    If the pink colour of a petal is dominant over white what would be the colour of the flower of the F generation when a pure pink flowered plant is crossed with a white flowered plant?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Pink
  • 54
    If two parents are sickle cell carriers then their genotypes would be
    Respondre
    (C)
    HbA HbS and HbA HbS
  • 55
    Which disease is sex-linked and mainly afflicts male offspring?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Haemophilia
  • 56
    In a living cell, factors which are responsible for inheritance are located
    Respondre
    (C)
    on the chromosomes
  • 57
    Which of the following is not a correct base pairing on the DNA strand?
    Respondre
    (D)
    Uracil, Thymine
  • 58
    Which of the following organisms is a social insect?
    Respondre
    (B)
    Honey bee
  • 59
    Territoriality is a phenomenon among
    Respondre
    (C)
    male animals with a group of females
  • 60
    A honey bee worker communicates with others on locating a source of food by
    Respondre
    (A)
    dancing