JAMB BIOLOGY QUESTIONS
1.Milk can be pasturized by?
Ans: heating to 75⁰C for 20 minutes
2.All living cells require water because?
Ans: is a medium for all metabolic reactions
3.A characteristic that can possibly be shared by both living and non living organism is
Ans: increase in size
4. viruses are regarded as non-living because they?
Ans: can neither respire nor excrete
5. When a virus is placed in a non-living medium it
Ans: becomes crystallized
6. The smallest living organisms which share the characteristics of both the living and non-living matter are
Ans: viruses
7. Which of the following does a virus have in common with animal cells?
Ans DNA
8. The ability of a living organism to detect and respond to changes in the environment is referred to as?
Ans: Irritability
9. In which of the following tissues do the cells have the ability to divide?
Ans: Meristem
10. All living organisms
Ans Respire
11. Most cells in higher animals retain their power of division except
Ans: nerve cells
12. The organelles present in cells that are actively respiring and photosynthesizing are?
Ans: mitochondria and chloroplast
13. which of the following is a characteristic of animal cell?
Ans Absence of large vacuoles
14. The part of the cell solely responsible for respiration is the
Ans: mitochondria
15. Which of the following does not exist as a single free cell?
Ans: Amoeba
16. Viruses are considered to be living organism because they?
Ans: Possess transmittable characters
17. Which of the following does virus have in common with animal cells?
Ans: DNA
18. All living organisms
Ans: Respire
19. In which of the following tissues do the cells have the ability to divide?
Ans Meristem
20. where is energy produced in a cell?
Ans: Mitochondria
21. Which of the following cell constituent is not common in both plant and animals?
Ans: chloroplasts
22. The function of ribosomes in cells is?
Ans: protein synthesis
23. Which of the following structures is common to Euglena, white blood cell and amoeba.
Ans: Vacuole
24. The organelle involved in tissue respiration is the
Ans: mitochondrion
25. The membrane surrounding the vacuole in plants is called?
Ans: endoplasmic reticulum
26. Which of the following plants is swollen shoot disease common?
Ans: cocoa
27. The cilia in paramecium are used for ?
Ans: locomotion
28. which of the following is an organ?
Ans: liver
29. Which of the following organism does not exist as a single free living cell?
Ans: volvox
30. An amoeba and an unlaid chicken eggs are ?
Ans: single cell
31. Euglena may be classified as a plant because it
Ans: has chloroplast
32. A group of similar cells performing the same function is a?
Ans: a tissue
33. What is the level of organization in an onion bulb?
Ans: Organ
34. Which of the following is the simplest living organism?
Ans: virus
35. The lowest level of organization in living organisms is
Ans: cell
36. which of the following is the most complex according to their cellular level of organization?
Ans: heart
37. The correct sequence of levels of organization starting from the lowest is
Ans: cell – tissue – organ – system
38. The cell component that is present in prokaryotic cell is the?
Ans: Ribosome
39. The chromosomes of members of the kingdom monera are within the?
Ans: cytoplasm
40. The bacteria type that are arranged in chains are the ?
Ans: streptococci
41. which of the following groups of cells is devoid of true nuclei?
Ans: Viruses
42. Amoeba moves by means of?
Ans: pseudopodia
43. The swollen shoot disease of cocoa tree is caused by a ?
Ans: bacterium
44. The organ which is sensitive to light in euglena is the?
Ans: large spot
45. In amoeba, osmoregulation is carried out by the?
Ans: contractile vacuole
46. The spores of mucus are dispersed by?
Ans: wind
47. An organism found on a bare rock surface has features of algae and fungi?
Ans: a lichen
48. An organism which exhibits extracellular digestion is?
Ans: Rhizopus
49. A multinucleate body without internal cell boundaries is characteristic of
Ans: fungi
50. A plant which has a horizontal underground stem is what?
Ans: Rhizome
51. A plant which has a horizontal underground stem is what?
Ans: Rhizome
52. Which of the following is NOT characteristics of monocots plants?
Ans: Occurrence of secondary thickening
53. Mosses, liverworts and ferns can be grouped together as?
Ans: are seedless plants
54. Spirogyra and mucor can be grouped together as Thallophyta because?
Ans: their bodies are made up of thallus and filaments alternatively
55. Underground stems which grow horizontally through the soil are?
Ans: rhizomes
56. Which of the following is seed bearing?
Ans: Whistling pine
57. Which of the following has cones?
Ans: Gymnosperm
58. In most true ferns sporangia are grouped into?
Ans: Sori
59. The term thallophyta refers to?
Ans: algae and fungi
60. Double fertilization is a unique feature of
Ans: Angiosperm
61 Spirogyra, Euglena and Chlamydomonas share many characteristics except?
Ans: Mobility
62. In bryophytes sex organs are produced in the?
Ans: Gametophyte
63. Which of the following is a non green plant?
Ans: fungi
64. A water medium is necessary for fertilization in
Ans: ferns
65. Alternation of asexual and sexual modes of reproduction is found in
Ans: fern
66. In corm food is usually stored in the?
Ans: stems
67. Seed plants are divided into?
68. Plants that show secondary growth are usually found among the?
Ans: dicotyledons
69. Which of the following is organism is multicellular?
Ans: spirogyra
70. A water medium is necessary for fertilization in
Ans: ferns
71. The most abundant group of organism in the animal kingdom is?
Ans: insecta
72. Which one of the following animals is NEVER a secondary host of tapeworm?
Ans: Man
73. In tapeworm, the suckers on the scolex are used for
74. Which of these is not true of insects? The possession of
Ans: two pairs of antenna
75. Which of the following insects have incomplete metamorphosis during its life cycle
Ans: Grasshopper
76. The two types of human tapeworm can be distinguished by the presence or absence of a
Ans: hook
77. which of these animals is not metamerically segmented?
Ans: sharks
78. which of these worms is beneficial to Man?
Ans: Earthworm
79. Joint skeleton is absent in?
Ans: snail
80. which of these animals is radially symmetrical?
Ans: Hydra
81. The male cockroach differs from the female by having?
Ans: A pair of styles
82. which of the following is not a Xteristics for snails?
Ans: Chitinous exoskeleton
83. The following organism are hermaphrodites except
Ans: Schistosoma
84. The pedipalpi in spiders are used for
Ans: Grasping
85. Hydra removes undigested food by?
Ans: passing it through the mouth
86. Which of the following insects undergoes incomplete metamorphosis
Ans: termite
87. The soil swallowed by earthworm to form the worm cast is ground up in the ?
Ans: gizzard
88. The cnidoblast cells found in hydra are used for
Ans: Offence and defence
89. In snails, the hard calcareous shells are secreted by the
Ans: Mantle
90. The organism that has hydrostatic skeletons
Ans: Earthworm
91. The process of shedding the exoskeleton of an arthropod is known as?
Ans: Ecdysis
92. An insect with mandible takes food by?
Ans: biting and chewing
93. Nematodes are more advanced than Platyhelminthes in that they?
Ans: Have a gut with mouth and anus
94. Name some economic importance of cockroach
95. An example of poikilothermic organism is a?
Ans: lizard
96. Which of the following animal is cold-blooded?
Ans: whale
97. Which of the following is not found in female agama lizard?
Ans: nuchal crest
98. Fishes are cold-blooded because their body temperature is?
Ans: Constantly low
99. In which of the following organism is glycogen stored?
Ans: Rattus
100. A feature which adapts birds to flight is the possession of
Ans: light bones
101. cold blooded animal are referred to as?
Ans: poikilothermic