SS 3 BIOLOGY 2ND MOCK NOV 2022 (D) Wings on pericarp

6. The main similarity between unicellular and

SECTION ONE OBJECTIVES multicellular organisms is that both
(A) Perform all life activities
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(B) Exist as filaments
1. Which of the following group embraces the (C) Are plants
rest (D) Exist as colonies
7. Which of these organs is considered vestigial
(A) Class
in humans but fnctional in others
(B) Kingdom (A) Liver
(C) Phylum (B) Appendix
(D)Species (C) Septum
2. The group Mollusca is characterized by (D) Rectum
presence of 8. In active transport molecules move against a
concentration gradient, therefore,
(A) Jointed appendages
(A) Molecules move from a region of low
(B) Star shaped bodies concentration to a region of high
(C) Backbones concentration
(D) Soft non segmented bodies (B) Molecules move from a region of high
3. A virus can sometimes be regarded as a living concentration to a region of low
organism because it concentration
(A) Causes disease in plant and animals (C) The concentration gradient has little
(B) Exists in a variety of shapes effect on the movement of molecules
(C) Reproduces in living cells (D) Molecules force their war through special
(D) Is easily visible with the aid of an electron channels
microscope 9. Which of the following substances pass
4. A major difference between plants and through the root cell membrane by osmosis
animals is that (A) Cell sap
(A) Animals show locomotion while plants (B) Carbon dioxide
don’t (C) Oxygen
(B) There id definite growth in animals only (D) Water
(C) Animals consume inorganic materials as 10. Which of the following statements defines
food while plants consume only organic plasmolysis
materials (A) Shrinking of a plant cell in a solution
(D) Animals give up carbon dioxide as waste (B) Shrinking away of cytoplasm from an
product while plants don’t animal cell membrane
5. Which of the following adaptations is not (C) Shrinking away of the cytoplasm from a
found in fruits and seeds dispersed by wind plant cell wall
(A) Small and light body (D) Shrinking of the vacuole and leaving the
(B) Spongy coats cytoplasm attached to the cell wall
(C) Turfs and hairs
11. The role of ATP include the following
activities except
(A) Provision of energy to do work in living
organisms
(B) Transmission of nerve impulse
(C) Keeping the body warm in
homoeothermic animals
(D) Producing water during aerobic
respiration
12. Which of the following statements is true
about the movement of the fore arm? In
(A) Bending the arm, the biceps relax and the
triceps contract
(B) Bending the arm the biceps contract and
the triceps relax
(C) Straightening the arm, the biceps
contract and the triceps relax
(D) Straightening the arm both biceps and
triceps contract.
13. Only specially adapted organisms can be
found in
(A) Salty water
(B) Humid air
(C) Moist soil
(D) Mouth cavities
14. In plants, respiration occurs in
(A) Mesophyll cells
(B) The root cells only
(C) The stomata and lenticels
(D) All living cells
15. A faster color change of a dry cobalt chloride
paper affixed to the lower surface of a leaf
than the upper side , indicates that
(A) The lower surface of the leaf has more
stomata
(B) Sunlight slows down water loss from the
upper surface
(C) Sunlight causes the stomata on the upper
surface to close
(D) Stomata are not present on the upper
surface
16. Which of the following glands secretes a
substance into the blood stream of a
frightened person
(A) Adrenal glands
(B) Pituitary gland
(C) Thyroid gland
(D) Gonads
17. Which of the following describes an example
of fertilization in higher organisms
(A) Fusion of sperm and egg nuclei
(B) Ejaculation of sperm into a female body
(C) Male gametes germinating in the pollen
tube
(D) Pollen grain landing on a mature stigma
18. Which of the following is NOT true of the
light stage of photosynthesis
(A) Energization of chlorophyll by sunlight
(B) Photolysis of water into hydrogen and
hydroxyl ions
(C) Reduction of carbon dioxide by hydrogen
atoms in NADPH2
(D) Water is formed
19. Which of the following juices contains the
enzyme ptyalin
(A) Gastric juice
(B) Pancreatic juice
(C) Succus entericus
(D) Saliva
20. Trees in savannah habitats usually have
heavy thick barks which minly
(A) Reduces rate of transpiration
(B) Protect them from scorching sun
(C) Protect them from heavy winds
(D) Resist bush fires
21. In the marine food web, the source of energy
for the producer comes from
(A) Sea waves
(B) Sea water
(C) Sun
(D) Chemicals
22. Possession of strong adhesives is a feature of (B) Thermal plant discharge
animals living in/on (C) Crude oil spillage
(A) Sandy beaches (D) Raw sewage disposal
(B) Rocky shores
(C) Benthic zones 29. Which of the following statements about
(D) Deserts mutation Is true
23. Which of the following factors is not (A) The genotype is not affected
associated with aquatic habitats (B) The genotype is affected
(A) Salinity (C) The phenotype is not affected
(B) Turbidity (D) It cannot be induced by artificial means
(C) Temperature 30. Variations which exhibit a wide range from
(D) Edaphic one extreme to the other with very little
24. Which of the following instrument is used to difference between the intermediates is
measure the speed of a stream described as
(A) Simple float (A) Phenotypic
(B) Secchi disc (B) Discontinuous
(C) Quadrat frame (C) Continuous
(D) Rain guage (D) Genotypic
25. Which of the following processes does not 31. Which of the following is an example of
contribute to the maintenance of the physiological variation
nitrogen content of the soil (A) Blood groups
(A) Decomposition (B) Height
(B) Denitrification (C) Finger print
(C) Nitrification (D) Skin color
(D) Nitrogen fixation 32. A person with blood group B can only donate
26. Which of the following organisms is well blood to individuals with blood group
adapted to fluid feeding (A) A and B
(A) Cockroach (B) B and AB
(B) Mosquito (C) O only
(C) Grasshopper (D) B only
(D) Ant 33. If the pink color of a petal is dominant over
27. The density dependent factors that operate the white, what would be the color of the
to regulate population size may include the flower of the F1 generation when a pure pink
following except flowered plant is crossed with a white
(A) Shortage of food supply flowered plant
(B) Spread of disease (A) Purple
(C) Fire outbreak (B) Pink
(D) Increased competition (C) White
28. Algal bloom depletes oxygen content of (D) Pinkish white
water bodies polluted by 34. If two parents are sickle cell carriers, then
(A) Industrial effluents their genotypes would be
 (A) A A and SS (B) Thoracic vertebrae
(B) S S and S S (C) Caudal vertebrae
(C) A S and AS (D) Sacral vertebrae
(D) A A and AA 42. In which of the following bones is the
35. Which of these diseases is sex linked and transverse process most developed
mainly affect male off springs (A) Thoracic vertebrae
(A) Sickle cell (B) Lumbar vertebrae
(B) Hemophilia (C) Cervical vertebrae
(C) Diabetes (D) Sacral vertebrae
(D) Malaria 43. Which of these is not a characteristic feature
36. In a living cell factors which are responsible of veins
for inheritance are located (A) Presence of thick elastic walls
(A) On the nuclear membrane (B) Presence of valves
(B) On the nucleolus (C) They usually return blood to the heart
(C) On the chromosomes (D) They carry blood at a high pressure
(D) In the nucleoplasm 44. Which of these blood vessels begins and ends
37. Which of the following is NOT a correct base as capillaries
pairing on the DNA strand (A) Mesenteric vein
(A) Adenine Thymine (B) Hepatic vein
(B) Cytosine Guanine (C) Coronary vein
(C) Guanine Cytosine (D) Hepatic portal vein
(D) Uracyl Thymine 45. In which of the following animals do
38. Which of the following organissms is a social oxygenate and deoxygenated blood mix
insect (A) Chicken
(A) Grasshopper (B) Fish
(B) Honey bee (C) Human
(C) Butterfly (D) Crocodile
(D) Housefly 46. Which of the following is NOT an evidence of
39. Acetabulum is found on the evolution
(A) Cervical vertebrae (A) Fossil records
(B) Scapula (B) Comparative embryology
(C) Knee joint (C) Polymorphism
(D) Ischium (D) Comparative anatomy
40. Odontoid process articulates with 47. The theory of survival of the fittest was first
(A) The base of the skull propounded by
(B) Neural canal of atlas (A) Darwin
(C) Neural canal of axis (B) Larmarck
(D) Head of humerus (C) Linnaeua
41. In which of the following bones has all the (D) Mendel
structures disappeared except the centrum
(A) Atlas
48. The character that is manifested in an (C) Sigmoid curve
organism in the presence of a contrasting (D) Linear curve
character is known as 55. Which of the following features of a tadpole
(A) Genotype indicates that the animal is a herbivore
(B) Phenotype (A) Presence of operculum
(C) Recessive (B) Muscular tail
(D) Dominant (C) Ling coiled intestines
49. Which of the following variation will give a (D) Internal gills
normal distribution 56. Which of he following organisms are the
(A) Blood groups producers in an aquatic habitat
(B) Tongue rolling (A) Benthos
(C) Body weight (B) Phytoplanktons
(D) Finger prints (C) Zooplanktons
50. Which of the following bacteria live in the (D) Nektons
root nodules of leguminous plants 57. Blood leaves the heart for the systemic
(A) Azotobacter circulation through the
(B) Nitrobacter (A) Pulmonary artery
(C) Rhizobium (B) Pulmonary vein
(D) Nitrosomonas (C) Aorta
51. The vector of sleeping sickness disease is (D) Carotid artery
(A) Cockroach 58. The pulse can best be described ad
(B) Mosquito (A) The loud DUB sound at the closing of the
(C) Black fly bicuspid and tricuspid valves
(D) Tse tse fly (B) The stretching and recoiling of the
52. The effect of chlorofluoro carbon is arteries to accommodate pressure of
(A) Reduction of oxygen concentration in the blood flow from the heart
atmosphere (C) The loud LUB sound at the closing of the
(B) Depletion of the ozone layer semi lunar valves
(C) Screening of ultra violet rays (D) The powerful contraction of the muscles
(D) Increase in corbondioxide concentration of the ventricles
53. The order of primary succession by plants in 59. Which of these is the primary source of
a very dry habitat is support for herbaceous plants
(A) Xerophytes mesophytes shrubs (A) Turgid parenchyma
(B) Mesophytes xerophytes shrubs (B) Collenchyma
(C) Mesophytes shrubs xerophytes (C) Sclerenchyma
(D) Xerophytes shrubs mesophytes (D) Xylem wood
54. A population which exceeds it’s carrying 60. Which of these tissues is strengthened by
capacity and them collapses is represented deposits of lignin
graphically as a (A) Turgid parenchyma
(A) Normal curve (B) Collenchyma
(B) Skewed curve (C) Sclerenchyma
(D) Xylem wood

SECTIO TW ESSAY
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS, EACH
QUESTION CARRY 20 MKS

1. Draw a diagram 9cm of the L/S of the

human heart and label fully
2. (a) with adequate diagrams, illustrate
how the muscles of the fore arm work
together with the bones to bring
about movement
(b) A young man was diagnosed with
painful urinary tract infection and one
of the medication to arrest the
situation was an intra muscular
injection on the gluteal muscle.
Outline the route through which the
antibiotic will travel to it’s target
organs. Diagrams are NOT necessary.

3. (a) With adequate diagrammatic

illustrations explain what happens in
the human heart during systole and
diastole.
Wishing you excellent retentive
memory, good luck.
(b) In a tabular form, give five
differences between arteries and
veins