JAMB - Biology (2002)

  • 1
    An amoeba and an unlaid chicken egg are
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    (C)
    single cell
  • 2
    In corms, food is usually stored in the
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    (B)
    stems
  • 3
    The animals that move by means of flagella include
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    (A)
    Chlamydomonas and Euglena
  • 4
    When oil is poured into the breeding site of mosquitoes, it
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    (C)
    suffocates the pupae
  • 5
    The structure found only in the plant cells are
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    (C)
    cell wall and chloroplast
  • 6
    A flower that has both stamens and pistils is said to be
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    (C)
    perfect
  • 7
    In the diagram, the hawk is
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    (C)
    a tertiary onsumer
  • 8
    Example of competitors are
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    (B)
    snake and lizard
  • 9
    one of the adaptation of life on trees by a monkey is its possession of digits which are
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    (C)
    opposable
  • 10
    The community of plants in which the same species occur from year to year is the
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    (D)
    climax vegetation
  • 11
    The most common means of transmiting the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is
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    (C)
    through sexual intercourse
  • 12
    Plants tend to prevent overcrowding by means of efficient
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    (D)
    seed dispersal
  • 13
    The physical and climatic factors of a region primarily determine the
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    (D)
    community of organisms in the region
  • 14
    A step in the movement of energy through an ecosystem is a description that best fits the term
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    (B)
    trophic level
  • 15
    In a field experiment, the frequency of water leaf was observed to be 48 after 20 tosses of a 2m\(^2\) quadrat. What is the density of the plants in the field?
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    (A)
    1.2 per m2
  • 16
    The supporting tissue in xylem is most poorly developed in
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    (C)
    submerged water plants
  • 17
    The addition of lime to clayed soil serves to
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    (D)
    improve capillary action
  • 18
    The excessive use of agro-chemicals could lead to the pollution of
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    (C)
    fresh water
  • 19
    In a population study using the transect method, a student is likely to record the highest number of species in?
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    (B)
    a guinea savanna
  • 20
    In his theory of evolution, Darwin implied that
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    (B)
    the most successful organisms are those that best adapt to their environment
  • 21
    The carnassial teeth of a carnivorous animal consist of the
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    (A)
    last upper premolar and the first lower molar
  • 22
    Birds which are large with long straight pointed beaks, long necks and long legs are likely to be
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    (B)
    fish catchers
  • 23
    A feature of the caste system of bees and termites ia that
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    (A)
    the workers are sterile
  • 24
    The structure that is common in the embryos of mammals, amphibians, birds, fishes and reptiles and which is an evidence of their common ancestry is the
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    (D)
    gill-silts
  • 25
    Animals aestivate when the environment in which they live becomes
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    (A)
    hot and dry
  • 26
    Examples of organisms in which extracellular digestion occurs are?
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    (D)
    rhizopus, housefly and hydra
  • 27
    The mammalian erythrocytes differ from the leucocytes at maturity because the erythrocytes are
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    (B)
    discoid and enucleated
  • 28
    The presence of endoskeleton is characteristic of
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    (B)
    vertebrata
  • 29
    The capture and digestion of insects by a pitcher plant is a special form of nutrition termed
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    (B)
    heterotrophic
  • 30
    Which of the following statement is correct about the experiment?
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    (D)
    The leaves outside the flask serve as control
  • 31
    The experimental set-up can be used to demonstrate that
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    (D)
    carbon (IV) oxide is necessary for photosynthesis
  • 32
    When a marine fish was taken from the ocean and put in a tank of fresh water, it died after a short period because
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    (B)
    the body cells of the fish swelled and burst as a result of the hypotonic fresh water
  • 33
    Which of the following pairs of organ is located in the anterior half of the mammalian body cavity?
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    (C)
    Lungs and heart
  • 34
    The mode of nutrition exhibited by a tapeworm is
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    (C)
    parasitic
  • 35
    The organ located within the duodenal loop in the mamal is the
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    (B)
    pancreas
  • 36
    In which of the following groups of fruits is the pericarp inseparable from the seed coat?
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    (D)
    Crayopsis
  • 37
    A person that is obese must avoid meals containing
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    (B)
    margarine and butter
  • 38
    Tissue respiration is important for the
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    (C)
    release of energy for the body use
  • 39
    The function of the absorption is performed by the structure labelled
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    (B)
    II
  • 40
    The structure labelled I represented the
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    (D)
    pericycle
  • 41
    The gland usually found in the position labelled I is the
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    (D)
    pituitary
  • 42
    To select and retain the desirable trait of large body size which a farmer has observed in his herd, the farmer needs to
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    (C)
    inbreed the animals in his herd
  • 43
    In a population of living things, the parameters of size, height, weight and colour are examples of
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    (B)
    continuous variation
  • 44
    If XN is the dominant allele for normal vision and Xn the recessive allele for colour blindness, a boy with the genotype YXn will be
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    (B)
    be colour-blind
  • 45
    The first four children of a couple were all girls. The probability that the fifth will also be a girl is
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    (D)
    1/2