JAMB - Biology (2019)

  • 1
    Which of the following is a behavioural adaptation that protects prey from predators?
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    (C)
    Secreting irritating fluid
  • 2
    The period of inactivity seen in some animals during long period of heat or drought is
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    (B)
    Aestivation
  • 3
    The insect trapping movements of the leaves of the venus fly trap is a behavioural adaptation for
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    (C)
    obtaining food
  • 4
    Animals are said to gregarious when
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    (C)
    they are of the same species moving together in a group
  • 5
    The type of nutrition shown by spirogyra is
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    (D)
    Holophytic
  • 6
    Raw materials required by green plants to manufacture their food are
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    (B)
    inorganic substances
  • 7
    Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic?
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    (B)
    Euglena and chlamydomonas
  • 8
    The type of nutrition in which two organisms of different species live together and derive nutrients from each other is
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    (A)
    symbiotic nutrition
  • 9
    Which of the following statement about the similarities in plant and animal transport is correct?
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    (A)
    Materials and hormones are transported in fluid form
  • 10
    Which of the following describes the function of lymph
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    (D)
    Body defence
  • 11
    One of the major ways in which the blood is able to defend the body against disease causing organisms is
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    (B)
    Clumping
  • 12
    Which of the following is not a transmitable character in plants
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    (D)
    Haemophilia
  • 13
    Inheritable character/features possessed by an organism can be referred to as
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    (C)
    Traits
  • 14
    One of the following is a process of transmission of hereditary characteristics by chromosomes
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    (D)
    Dictating the formation of a protein by a gene in a chromosome
  • 15
    The attachment of the embryo to the wall of the uterus is called
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    (B)
    Implantation
  • 16
    Which of the reproductive system in mammals secretes a part of the seminal fluid which raises the pH of the fluid in the female reproductive system?
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    (A)
    Cowper's gland
  • 17

    The part labelled a in the above diagram is used for

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    (C)
    Gaseous exchange
  • 18

    The above organism can be classified under which phylum in the animal kingdom

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    (B)
    Chordata
  • 19
    One important characteristics of green plant is that they
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    (C)
    Are autotropic
  • 20
    A virus can sometimes be regarded as a living organism because it
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    (D)
    Reproduces in living cells
  • 21
    A population is best described as
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    (A)
    A group of the same species of organisms living together
  • 22
    The number of times an organism occurs within a given area of a habitat is referred to as
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    (B)
    Population frequency
  • 23
    Reading the verdict of a case by a magistrate is an example of
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    (D)
    A voluntary action
  • 24
    Which of the following structures controls the activities of the living cell?
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    (A)
    Nucleus
  • 25
    Which of the following are components of glomerular filtrate?
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    (C)
    All the components of blood except plasma protein and cells
  • 26
    The sum total of adaptive changes from pre-existing form that have taken place over a long time resulting in diversity of forms, structures and functions among organism is referred to as
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    (D)
    Organic Evolution
  • 27
    The specific portion of a habitat which is occupied by a particular species is referred to as
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    (B)
    Ecological niche
  • 28
    In plants, respiration occurs in
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    (C)
    All living cells
  • 29
    Which of the following is an example of discontinuous variation?
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    (B)
    Offsprings including two male cats and three female cats
  • 30
    Which of the following type of soil has the highest water retaining capacity?
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    (C)
    Clay
  • 31
    Rabbits cannot survive in an aquatic habitat because they have
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    (B)
    no gills
  • 32
    Which of the following substances pass through the root cell membrane by osmosis?
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    (D)
    Water
  • 33
    Trees in Savanna habitats usually have thick bark which mainly.
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    (A)
    Reduces the rate of transpiration
  • 34
    Competition among individuals of a population increases the
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    (C)
    Survival of the fittest
  • 35
    In natural selection, Darwin proposed that evolution occurred because of the following conditions except
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    (D)
    food and other needs are abundant
  • 36
    Which of the following substances has the highest amount of energy in joules per unit weight?
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    (B)
    Fats
  • 37
    Which of the following pairs of scientists discovered the Rhesus factor in human blood?
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    (C)
    Landsteiner and Lavine
  • 38
    The study of an individual organism or a single species of organism and its environment is
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    (A)
    Autecology
  • 39
    Which of the following is a nitrifying bacterium?
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    (B)
    Nictrobacter
  • 40
    Which of the following is the effect of using artificial pollination in plant breeding?
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    (D)
    Improvement of the variety of crops
  • 41
    Only specially adapted micro-organisms are found in
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    (A)
    Salty water
  • 42
    Plants which can survive in extremely dry places are called
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    (B)
    Xerophytes
  • 43
    The presence of ______ for swimming in a tad-pole enables it to adapt in an aquatic habitat.
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    (C)
    Tail
  • 44
    Possession of thin membrane enables a tapeworm to
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    (C)
    Absorb digested food from the host's intestine to their system
  • 45
    Which of the following juices contains the enzyme ptyalin?
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    (D)
    Saliva
  • 46
    Which of the following essential substance is contained in vegetable?
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    (C)
    Mineral Salts
  • 47
    Good quality food will perform the following functions in human except
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    (B)
    Providing resistance against malaria
  • 48
    Which of the following is considered to be the first product of Photosynthesis?
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    (B)
    Starch
  • 49
    Which of the blood corpusles are irregular and amoeloid in shape
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    (A)
    Leucocytes
  • 50
    Which organ removes the largest quantity of water from the blood?
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    (C)
    Kidney
  • 51
    The movement of blood between the heart and all other parts of the body beside the lungs is
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    (D)
    Systemic circulation
  • 52
    The change in the genetic make up of an organism resulting in an inheritable characteristics which is new is
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    (A)
    Mutation
  • 53
    The organic molecule(s) present in the nucleus is/are
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    (A)
    DNA
  • 54
    Albinism is an expression of trait controlled by
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    (B)
    Recessive genes
  • 55
    The male sex cells also called gametes are produced in the testes by a process called
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    (C)
    Spermatogenesis
  • 56
    Which of the following describes an example of fertilization in higher organisms
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    (A)
    Fusion of sperm and egg nuclei
  • 57

    The part labeled III in the above diagram is

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    (C)
    Hyphae
  • 58

    The organism above can be found in

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    (D)
    Moist environments
  • 59
    The possession of chloroplast in Euglena virids enables it to
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    (B)
    Carry out photosynthesis
  • 60
    Viruses are pathogens of the following diseases except
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    (A)
    Tuberculosis
  • 61
    The association between two organisms living together in which only one benefits from the association while the other is neither benefited nor harmed is
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    (C)
    Commensalism
  • 62
    Which of the following will have the least effect on the rate of change of the numbers in a population
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    (A)
    Mutation
  • 63
    Which of the following controls all voluntary actions
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    (B)
    Cerebrum
  • 64
    Which of the following statement describes an autonomic nervous system
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    (D)
    It affects glands, cardia muscles and smooth muscles
  • 65
    The glomerular filtrate contains the following except
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    (C)
    Blood Corpuscles
  • 66
    One of the following is not the theory of natural selection stated by Charles Dawin
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    (A)
    Characteristics acquired through use or disuse are transmitted offspring
  • 67
    Ecology is best defined as the study of
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    (B)
    The inter-relationship between living organisms and the environment
  • 68
    The following processes are involved during expiration in man except
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    (B)
    The thoracic cavity first increases in volume
  • 69
    Which of the following is an example of continous variation?
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    (D)
    Height in humans
  • 70
    One of the following is an effect of clay soil on vegetation
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    (B)
    Supports scanty vegetation
  • 71
    Which of the following factors is not considered in a terrestial habitat?
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    (D)
    Turbidity
  • 72
    What type of vertebrate assists in breathing alongside with the ribs?
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    (C)
    Thoracic
  • 73
    Which of the following statement is correct about Southern Guinea Savanna in Nigeria
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    (A)
    It is the largest of all the biotic community in Nigeria
  • 74
    In an ecosystem, the organism which changes light energy into stored chemical energy is the
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    (B)
    Producer
  • 75
    In the theory of use and disuse Lamarck proposed that evolution occurred because of the following except
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    (A)
    There is natural selection of offspring