Biology Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Biology is the study of life and living things. It can be divided into different areas that look at the structure, function, anatomy, and behavior of organisms.

• Question 1:

  Which of the following statement about the similarities in plant and animal transport is correct?

  Options:
  A) Materials and hormones are transported in fluid form
  B) The transport medium is made up of only tissues
  C) Their materials are transported in the same vessels
  D) Diffusion is not required
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2:

  The structure that joins the two strands of a chromosome together is the?

  Options:
  A) spindle
  B) cellulose
  C) centromere
  D) chromatid
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: Nastic movement is Options:
  A) response to light stimulus
  B) non-directional
  C) directional
  D) response to internal stimulus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4: When a marine fish was taken from the ocean and put in a tank of fresh water, it died after a short period because Options:
  A) the tank was too small compare to the large ocean
  B) the body cells of the fish swelled and burst as a result of the hypotonic fresh water
  C) the body cells of the fish shrank as their sap was hypertonic to the fresh water
  D) there was no food in the tank, so the starved.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5: The theory of survival of the fittest was propounded by ….. Options:
  A) Darwin
  B) Hooke
  C) Lamarck
  D) Linnaeus
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  

  The gas occupying the space labelled I is

  Options:
  A) carbon (IV) oxide
  B) nitrogen
  C) hydrogen
  D) oxygen
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7: A multinucleate body without internal cell boundaries is characteristics Options:
  A) bryop
  B) fungi
  C) algae
  D) gymnosperms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8: Which of the following is one of Lamarck's theories? Options:
  A) Some variations are more favourable to existence in a given environment than others
  B) All living organisms are constantly involved in a struggle to existence
  C) The size of a given population remains fairly constant
  D) New species originates through the inheritance of acquired traits
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9:

  

  The structure labelled I represented the

  Options:
  A) phloem
  B) xylem
  C) cortex
  D) pericycle
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  

  In the diagram, which of the animals represents the oldest creatures in terms of evolutionary history?

  Options:
  A) iii
  B) ii
  C) i
  D) iv
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  The correct answer is D .