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
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A flower that has both stamens and pistils is said to be
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(C)
perfect
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In the diagram, the hawk is
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(C)
a tertiary onsumer
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Example of competitors are
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(B)
snake and lizard
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one of the adaptation of life on trees by a monkey is its possession of digits which are
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(C)
opposable
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The community of plants in which the same species occur from year to year is the
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(D)
climax vegetation
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The most common means of transmiting the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is
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(C)
through sexual intercourse
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Plants tend to prevent overcrowding by means of efficient
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(D)
seed dispersal
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The physical and climatic factors of a region primarily determine the
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(D)
community of organisms in the region
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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
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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
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The supporting tissue in xylem is most poorly developed in
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(C)
submerged water plants
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The addition of lime to clayed soil serves to
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(D)
improve capillary action
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The excessive use of agro-chemicals could lead to the pollution of
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(C)
fresh water
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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
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The carnassial teeth of a carnivorous animal consist of the
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(A)
last upper premolar and the first lower molar
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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
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A feature of the caste system of bees and termites ia that
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(A)
the workers are sterile
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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
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Animals aestivate when the environment in which they live becomes
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(A)
hot and dry
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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
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The presence of endoskeleton is characteristic of
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(B)
vertebrata
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The capture and digestion of insects by a pitcher plant is a special form of nutrition termed
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(B)
heterotrophic
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Which of the following statement is correct about the experiment?
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(D)
The leaves outside the flask serve as control
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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
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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
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The organ located within the duodenal loop in the mamal is the
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(B)
pancreas
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In which of the following groups of fruits is the pericarp inseparable from the seed coat?
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(D)
Crayopsis
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A person that is obese must avoid meals containing
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(B)
margarine and butter
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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
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The structure labelled I represented the
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(D)
pericycle
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The gland usually found in the position labelled I is the
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(D)
pituitary
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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
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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
