JAMB UTME - Biology - 1982 | Green Bridge CBT

Pergunta 1 Relatório

Any dry fruit which can break into several parts each containing one seed is a

capsule

aggregrate fruit

legume

schizocarp

follicle

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Pergunta 2 Relatório

Which of the following statements is TRUE of inhalation of air by man?

The ribs are not raised

Diaphragm is raised

Intercostal muscles relax

Pressure of the thoracic cavity increase

Size of thoracic cavity increase

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Pergunta 3 Relatório

An hormoiothermic animal kept in a room where the temperature is lower than the body temperature may lose heat by four physical process. Which of the following processes is NOT connected with the body temperature regulation ?

Radiation

Sweat

Evaporation

Conduction

Convection

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Organization Of Life

Classification

Regulation Of Internal Environment

Relevance Of Biology To Agriculture

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Pergunta 4 Relatório

In which part of a leguminous plant can you find bacteria like Azotobacter?

Spongy mesophyll of leaf

At the nodes

At the internodes

In nodules

Palisade mesophyll of leaf

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Plant Nutrition

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Pergunta 5 Relatório

Which of the following pairs are the products of sucrose hydrolysis?

Glucose + glucose

Fructose + fructose

Glucose + fructose

Galactose + glucose

Fructose + galactose

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DNA Structure And Replication, RNA Transcription

Nucleic Acids

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Pergunta 6 Relatório

When a person with blood belonging to group O has lost much blood due to an accident, he can be given blood from persons who have blood belonging to

group O only

group A only

group AB only

groups A and O

groups AB and O

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Crime Detection

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Pergunta 7 Relatório

The glottis is the opening which leads to the

Oesophagus

Larynx

Nostrils

Pharynx

Mouth

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Ways Of Ensuring Conservation

Support And Movement

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Pergunta 8 Relatório

Which of these food chains is NOT possible in a forest?

Diatom → fly → toad → snake

Fly → toad → snake→ hawk

Leaves → antelope → man → lion

Leaves → caterpillar → bird → lion

Leaves →goat → man→ lion

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Food Webs And Trophic Levels

Reproduction (Physical Changes In Males And Females)

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Pergunta 9 Relatório

If a 26 year old blind man married a young one-eyed woman and they had four children, how many of them would be blind like there father?

All

none

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Pergunta 10 Relatório

In human reproduction, the zygote formed as a result of fertilization gets attached to the wall of the uterus. The process is called

Sexual reproduction

Cohesion

Pregnancy

Implantation

Viviparity

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Reproduction (Physical Changes In Males And Females)

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Pergunta 11 Relatório

Which of these parts of the mammalian ears is directly concerned with the sense of balance?

Cochlea

Eustachian tube

Ear-drum

Pinna

Semicircular canals

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Pergunta 12 Relatório

A tapeworm has no alimentary canal because

It is autotrophic

It does not feed

It has no enzymes

Its body absorbs digested food

The suckers on the scolex suck blood

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Pergunta 13 Relatório

The maize grain is regarded as a fruit and not a seed because

it has a coleorhiza

it has a coleoptile

of the relatively large endosperm

there is the remain of a style

of the relatively small scutellum

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Nutrition

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Pergunta 14 Relatório

A population is defined as the collection of

Similar organism that are found in the same habitat

Similar organisms that breed in the same habitat

Similar organisms that interbreed freely in the same habitat

Similar organism eating the same food

Different organisms in the same habitat

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Pergunta 15 Relatório

In man, identical twins occur when

An ovum is fertilized by a sperm and then divide into two, each forming a separate embryo

an ovum fertilized by two sperms and then divides into two, each forming an embryo

two ova are fertilized at the same tine each forming an embryo

two ova are fertilized by a single sperm each forming an embryo after fertilization

one ovum first divides into two and each half is fertilized by a sperm before developing into an embryo

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Chromosomes: The Basis Of Heredity

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Pergunta 16 Relatório

In the figure above the structured labelled X is the

cellulose cell wall

plasma membrane

nuclear membrane

mucilage wall

ectoplasm

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Movement Of Substances Into And Out Of Cells

Cell Structure

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Pergunta 17 Relatório

A pyramid of numbers can be defined as

the number of plants and animals in an ecosystem

an arrangement of organism according to their habitat

the numerical relationships of a food chain

the number of plants and animals in a population

the total number of species and general in a community

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Ecology Of Population

Food Webs And Trophic Levels

Natural Habitats

Ecosystem

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Pergunta 18 Relatório

Flatworms and roundworms are said to be invertebrates because

they are small animals

they can live inside the vertebrates

some of them are unicellular

they have no backbones

they are parasitic

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Factors Affecting The Distribution Of Organisms

Heredity

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Pergunta 19 Relatório

ONE of the major causes of haemophilia is lack of

firbrinogen

amylase

white blood corpuscles

red blood corpuscles

plasma

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Heredity

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Pergunta 20 Relatório

Some of the major elements required by plants are

Potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus, sodium, calcium

Nitrogen, phosphorus, molybdenum, sodium, calcium

Potassium, phosphorus, molybdenum, sodium, calcium

Potassium, nitrogen, iron , sodium, calcium

Potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, cadmium

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Pergunta 21 Relatório

Which of these animals is NOT metamerically segmented?

Tapeworm

Earthworm

Centipede

Crayfish

Shark

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Organization Of Life

Classification

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Pergunta 22 Relatório

A grass hopper respires by the means of its

Lung-books

Gills

Lungs

Antennae

Tracheal tubes

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Variety Of Organisms

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Pergunta 23 Relatório

Which of these statements is NOT true of insects?

They are anthropods

Their body is divide into three distinct regions of head, thorax and abdomen

Their thorax comprises three segments, only two of which bear a pair of appendages each

Respiration is by means of trachea

They undergo metamorphosis

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Forms In Which Living Cells Exist

Organization Of Life

Classification

Sense Organs (Eyes & Ears)

Cell Structure

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Pergunta 24 Relatório

In an epigeal germination, it is the

epicotyl that elongates fast

hypocotyl that elongates fast

hypogeal that elongates fast

plumule that elongates fast

roots that elongate fast

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Pergunta 25 Relatório

Which of the vertebra has a projection called odontoid process?

Atlas

Axis

Thoracic

Lumber

Caudal

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Organization Of Life

Classification

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Pergunta 26 Relatório

The parts of the mammalian eye that strongly bend light rays are the

cornea and the lens

cornea and aqueous humour

cornea and vitreous humour

lens and aqueous humour

lens and vitreous humour

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Sense Organs (Nose, Tongue & Skin)

Behavioural Adaptations In Social Animals

Reproduction (Courtship Behaviour In Animals)

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Pergunta 27 Relatório

A married couple has 10 children and they are all girls. Which of the following is the CORRECT explanation?

The woman is incapable of producing male children

The man’s sperms are very weak

The man is not athletic enough

The Y component of the men’s sex chromosomes was always involved

The X component of the man’s sex chromosomes was always involved

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Behavioural Adaptations In Social Animals

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Pergunta 28 Relatório

The three blood vessels that supply the mammalian alimentary canals are

segmented artery, hepatic artery and coeliac artery

coeliac artery, anterior mesenteric artery and posteroir mesenteric artery

coelic artery, segmental artery and hepatic artery

hepatic artery, anterior mesenteric artery and posterior mesenteric artery

hepatic portal vein, anterior mesenteric artery and posterior mesenteric artery

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Pergunta 29 Relatório

External ears of mammals consist of

pinna and tympanum

pinna only

auditory meatus only

auditory meatus and pinna

auditory meatus and tympanum

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Classification

Sense Organs (Eyes & Ears)

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Pergunta 30 Relatório

Which of the parts are used to recognize the bone in the figure above?

1 and 4

2 and 3

3 and 5

1, 2, and 6

4 and 5

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Tissues And Supporting Systems:

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Pergunta 31 Relatório

when an operculate fish breathes it takes in water through the

mouth and passes it out through the same way

mouth and passes it out through the operculum

operculum and passes it out through the mouth

operculum and passes it out through the nostrils

nostrils and passes it out through the operculum

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Cellular Respiration

Cell Structure

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Pergunta 32 Relatório

Refrigeration, as a method of preservation, has ONE of the following characteristics:

Kills all the bacteria

Kill most of the bacteria

Makes the bacteria inactive

Dries food

Hydrolyses food

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Pergunta 33 Relatório

If the gall bladder of a man is removed by surgery, which of the following processes will be most seriously affected?

Digestion of fats and oil

Formation of urea

Digestion of starch

Conversion of protein

Storage and release of the urine

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Animal Nutrition

Population Studies By Sampling

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Pergunta 34 Relatório

Kwashiorkor is caused by severe deficiency of

Water

Oil

Drugs

Proteins

Sugars

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Animal Nutrition

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Pergunta 35 Relatório

Which of the following is not associated with excretion in mammals

Glomerulus

Urea

Faeces

Carbon Dioxide

Bowman's capsule

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Excretory System

Excretory Systems And Mechanisms Types Of Excretor

Excretion

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Pergunta 36 Relatório

Where is the energy produced in a cell?

Nucleus

Nucleolus

Lysosomes

Chloroplast

Mitochondria

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Nucleic Acids

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Pergunta 37 Relatório

The absence of stomata shows that a leaf may be

from a floating plant

from submerged plant

varigated

from a terrestrial plant

from parasitic green plant

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Plant Nutrition

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Pergunta 38 Relatório

Treatment of a poor soil with lime supplies

Sulphur

Calcium

Phosphorus

Sodium

Nitrogen

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Resources To Be Conserved: Soil, Water, Wildlife

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Pergunta 39 Relatório

An onion bulb stores its food in the

Stem

Leaves

Roots

Cotyledon

Branches

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Read lesson note on Transport System (WAEC)

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Ecology Of Population

Forms In Which Living Cells Exist

Transport System

Organization Of Life

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Pergunta 40 Relatório

Which of the following tissue are made up of dead cells?

Meristematic

Xylem vessels

Cambium

Mesophyll

Palisade

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Tissues And Supporting Systems:

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Pergunta 41 Relatório

If a farmer left his land uncultivated for five years before returning to it, he must be practising

modern agriculture

strip cropping

contour ridging

crop rotation

the bush fallow system

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Read lesson note on Evolution (Recombination DNA) (WAEC)

Resources To Be Conserved: Soil, Water, Wildlife

Evolution (Recombination DNA)

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Pergunta 42 Relatório

If a tall man (TT) maries a dwarf woman (gg) and they have four male children, the offspring will be

All short

Three short and one tall

Two short and two tall

One short and three tall

All tall

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Heredity

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Pergunta 43 Relatório

Which of the following is NOT a function of mammalian blood?

Engulfing bacteria

Production of hormones

Transporting ureas

Distribution of heat

Transporting glucose

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Cell Structure

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Pergunta 44 Relatório

Which of these combinations is common to plant and animal cells?

Centriole, middle lamella, golgi bodies, mitrochondrion

Cytoplasm, sap, vacuole, starch grains, leucoplasts

Plasma membranes, chromosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes.

Nucleus, nucleolus, cellulose cell wall, endoplasmic reticulum

Cytoplasm, centriole, cellulose cell wall, nucleolus

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Pergunta 45 Relatório

When freshly tapped palm wine was kept overnight it was found to be more alcoholic. This effect must have been due to

the addition of saccharin

the addition of sugar

the addition of whisky or local gin

some complex hydrolytic reaction

anaerobic respiration of an organism

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Adaptive Colouration

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Pergunta 46 Relatório

The main function of the swim-bladder is for

Swimming

Detecting sound

Buoyancy

Breathing

Reproduction

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Read lesson note on The Cell And Its Environment: Physical And Biophysical Processes (WAEC)

Relevance Of Biology To Agriculture

The Cell And Its Environment: Physical And Biophysical Processes

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Pergunta 47 Relatório

Roots of plants are normally

Positively phototropic

Negatively geotropic

Negatively hydrotropic

Positively hydrotropic

Negatively chemotropic

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Read lesson note on Local (nigerian) Biomes) (JAMB)

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Respiration

Local (nigerian) Biomes)

Transport

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Pergunta 48 Relatório

The mammalian pancreas is involved with the

digestion of food only

digestion and absorption of food

digestion of food and regulation of blood sugar

digestion of food, production of hormone and the regulation of blood

digestion of food, and the regulation of blood

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Support And Movement

Reproduction

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Pergunta 49 Relatório

In man, spermatozoa are never found in the

testis

urethra

epididymis

prostrate glands

vas deferens

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Ecological Management: Tolerance, Minimum And Maximum

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Pergunta 50 Relatório

In the enzyme (amlyase) reactions of starch → sugar
starch is referred to as the

substrate

product

enzyme

enzyme-substrate complex

reaction mixture

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