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 2016 JAMB BIOLOGY QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following 4. Which of the following is NOT

structures is a protective adaptive part of the carbon cycle?
feature of the Agama Lizard to the
environment? A. Organic carbon
B. Decomposition
A. Nuchal crest C. Nitrates formation
B. Claws D. Photosynthesis
C. Scaly skin
D. Gular fold. 5. I. Tissues
II. System
2. Which of the following adapts III. Cell
an insect for feeding? IV. Organs

A. suitable mouthparts Which of the above is the level of

B. paired antennae organization of a leaf?
C. segmented body
D. jointed appendages A. IV
B. I.
3. Which of the following results C. III.
from the cross between Yy and D. II.
Yy?
6. In cellular respiration, energy
A. 2Yy-2yy is stored in the form of
B. 2Yy:yy:YY
C. YY:2Yy:yy A. heat energy
D. YY: Yy:2yy B. adenosine diphosphate
C. adenosine monophosphate
D. adenosine triphosphate

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7. The principal organ for the 10. The rise and fall of ocean
manufacture of food in autotrophy water during the day is referred
is the to as

A. root hair A. gravity

B. growing root B. a pull
C. mature fruit C. tide
D. green leaf D. zone

8. A disease that results from lack 11. Which of the following is a

of iodine in the diet of humans is producer in an aquatic habitat?

A. beriberi A. Nymphaea
B. scurvy B. Dryopteris
C. rickets C. planarian
D. goiter D. Similium

9. The process whereby some 12. The relationship that exist

organism with certain favourable between a shark and Remora is
features get established in an
area is A. parasitism
B. commensalism
A. gene mutation C. saprophytism
B. dispersal D. symbiosis
C. overcrowding
D. natural selection 13. I. Tissue
II. System
III. Cell
IV Organ

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The correct sequence of B. vitamin E.
increasing level of complexity is C. vitamin B
D. vitamin C
A. IV-II-III
B. I-II-III-IV 17. Bacteria which add
C. IV-III-I-II atmospheric nitrogen to the soil
D. III-I-IV-II are

14. Which of the following is not A. putrefying bacteria

an inheritable disease? B. nitrifying bacteria
C. nitrogen fixing bacteria
A. Poliomyelitis D. denitrifying bacteria
B. Sickle-cell anaemia
C. Mental illness 18. The spines of the hedgehog is
D. Haemophilia an adaptive features for

15. Which of the finger print types A. Courtship

occur most frequently in the B. defence
population of human beings C. water conservation
D. obtaining food
A. Double-loop
B. Whorl 19. The dental formula of
C. Arch carnivores is represented by
D. Loop
A. I ,C , pm ,m
16. Beriberi results from a
B. I ,C , pm ,m
deficiency of

C. I ,C , pm ,m
A. vitamin A

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D. I ,C , pm ,m 23. Mammals requires roughage
in their food to

20. Which of the following

A. provide energy
instruments is used to measure
B. slow down aging
temperature?
C. ease digestion
D. prevent disease
A. Thermometer
B. Hygrometer
24. Variation can occur among
C. Anemometer
offspring of living organism
D. Hydrometer
because

21. In human, puffiness and

A. seeds are produced by self-
water retention in the body is a
pollination
possible symptom of
B. zygotes are produced by cross
fertilisation
A. bladder malfunction
C. they are produced by binary
B. poor digestion
fission
C. kidney malfunction
D. they are produced without
D. obesity
fertilisation

22. The theory of evolution which

25. The most important biotic
postulates that all living
factors which affect plants and
organisms have a common
animals in the habitat are
ancestor was proposed by

A. temperature and rainfall

A. Linnaeus
B. temperature and turbidity
B. Darwin
C. salinity and relative humidity
C. Lamarck
D. rainfall and relative humidity
D. Mendel
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26. The lowest unit of 29. The cell organelle solely
classification is the responsible for respiration is the

A. Kingdom A. nucleus
B. class B. nucleolus
C. phylum C. endoplasmic reticulum
D. species D. mitochondrion

27. Two important process 30. In which part of Nigeria are

involved in the absorption and
transport of materials in plants
are
A. flaccidity and turgidity
B. diffusion and plasmolysis
C. plasmolysis and capillarity
D. osmosis and diffusion
28. A series of organism existing
in an ecosystem through which
energy is transformed can
referred to as
A. food cycle
B. food chain
C. pyramid on numbers
D. food web
Mangrove swamps found?
A. Chad Basin
B. Niger Delta
C. Benue Valley
D. Mambilla Plateau
31. The breeding methods that
are useful in selective breeding of
animals and plants are
be A. inbreeding and cross- breeding
B. inbreeding and hetero-breeding
C. inbreeding and out-breeding
D. inbreeding and self-breeding
32. In a small unicellular
organism, diffusion is sufficient
for transport because

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A. the surface area to volume A. pressure and wind speed
ratio is small B. temperature and wind speed
B. they have lungs for diffusion C. pressure and rainfall
C. materials have to move over D. Temperature and rainfall
long distance
D. the surface area to volume 36. I. Strong winds
ratio is large II. high temperature
III. Dry and porous soils.
33. The function of the spinal cord
is to Which group of plants are
specially adapted to grow under
A. stand the body structure erect environmental conditions stated
B. control involuntary actions above?
C. transmit impulses to the brain
D. regulates developmental A. Thallophytic
changes B. Mesophytes
C. Xerophytes
34. The first vertebrates to D. Hydrophytes
ventures out of water and lives on
land are the 37. The lowest unit of a
biogeographical plant species is
A. Pisces
B. Amphibians A. micro flora
C. Reptiles B. macro fauna
D. Aves C. micro fauna
D. macro flora
35. Which of the following factors
mostly determine the major 38. Which of the following is rich
biomes of the world. source of vitamin K?

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A. Tomato B. protists
B. Guava C. coelenterates
C. Milk D. Anthropods
D. Onion
42. Physiological variation in
39. Severe diarrhea, dehydration human population is evidence in
and weakness are symptoms of the

A. cholera A. difference in the fingerprints

B. chickenpox B. physical appearance of
C. malaria individuals
D. yellow fever C. differences in height and
weight
40. A common characteristic D. ability to roll the tongue
found among the crustaceans is
the possession of 43. In photosynthesis, oxygen is
liberated during
A. a pair of antennae
B. a pair of walking legs on each A. conversion of energy
segment B. photolysis
C. four pairs of walking legs on C. splitting of carbon (IV)oxide
the cephalothorax D. glycolysis
D. two pairs of antennae
Use the information below to
41. In which of the following answer the question 44 and
groups of invertebrates are 45 that follows
flagella and cilia found

A. annelids

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 The type vertebra represented in
the diagram is
44. What is the total height of rice
that grew within the years of
A. Atlas
cultivation?
B. Lumbar
C. Axis
A. 240 cm
D. Sacrum
B. 239 cm
C. 340 cm
47. The structure labeled I is
D. 339 cm

A. Centrum
45. What is the average of the
B. neural canal
heights of rice within the period of
C. neural spins
cultivation?
D. transverse process

A. 68cm
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B. 47.8cm
C. 48cm
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. D
D. 67.8cm
8. D 9. D 10. C 11. C 12. B 13.
D 14. A 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. C
46. Use the diagram below to
19. B 20. C 21. A 22. C 23. B
answer the question that follows
24. C 25. B

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26. A 27. D 28. D 29. C 30. D
31. B 32. C 33. D 34. C 35. B
36. D 37. C 38. A 39. D 40. A
41. D 42. B 43. D 44. B 45. B
46. B 47. B

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 2017 JAMB BIOLOGY QUESTIONS

1. The piercing and sucking A. locust, camel, lizard and

mouth parts are found in snakes
B. monkeys, chameleon,
A. grasshoppers earthworm and grasshopper
B. mosquitoes C. monkeys, grasshopper, snail
C. termites and snakes
D. cockroaches D. lungfish, duck, butterfly and
lizards
2. The hormones that regulate
plant growth are 5. Suture joint is found in the

A. ethylene and auxins A. hip

B. auxin and gibberellins B. ankle
C. cytokinin and abscisic acid C. skull
D. ethylene and gibberellins D. elbow

3. Which of the following pair of 6. The organelle responsible for

organisms exhibit parasitic osmoregulation in Paramecium is
association?
A. flame cell
A. insect and plant B. nephridia
B. cattle and egret C. contractile vacuole
C. shark and remora D. Malpighian tubule
D. tsetse-fly and cattle
7. Use the diagram to answer
4. Which of the following group of the question that follow
animals can withstand the rigour
of the arid land?

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 10. When testing for the presence
of starch in a leaf, the reason for
dipping the decolourised leaf in
hot water is to
The excretory organ of an
earthworm is represented by
A. detect the starch
B. kill the leaf
A. IV
C. soften the leaf
B. I
D. remove the chlorophyll
C. III
D. II
11. The relationship between
remora and shark can best be
8. The platelets in mammalian
described as
blood are responsible for

A. parasitism
A. transporting oxygen
B. amensalism
B. initiating clotting
C. mutualism
C. removing carbon (IV) oxide
D. commensalism
D. destroying micro-organisms

12. The major characteristic of a

9. The most important factor that
fresh water habitat is the
determines the different types of
possession of
vegetation is

A. high turbidity
A. light
B. high density
B. wind
C. low salinity
C. temperature
D. high current
D. rainfall

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13. The causative organism of B. paramecium caudatum
cholera is C. hydra viridis
D. onion bulb
A. Clostridium sp
B. shigella sp 17. The simplest form of
C. vibrio sp reproduction is
D. salmonella typhi
A. conjugation
14. The process that takes place B. budding
in the dark stage of C. spore formation
photosynthesis is D. binary fission

A. oxidation of water 18. Which of the following is a

B. photolysis of water
C. oxidation of carbon (IV) oxide
D. reduction of carbon (IV) oxide
15. Chlorofluorocarbons are air
pollutants that originates from
A. crude oil refining
B. coal mining
C. motor vehicle exhaust
D. cooling system
characteristic of wind-pollinated
flower?
A. flowers lack nectar
B. flowers are conspicuous
C. flowers have perianths
D. flowers are bisexual
19. Use the diagram to answer
the question that follow

16. Which of the following is

organ level of organisation?
The most eminent unit in terms or
water conservation is represented
A. Volvox sp
by

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A. IV C. 12.5
B. I D. 33.3
C. III
D. II 22. The presence of termites and
earthworms in soil promote
20. The process required for
formation of gamete in sexual A. porosity and fertility
reproduction is B. porosity and aeration
C. aeration and fertility
A. implantation D. acidity and aeration
B. fertilisation
C. mitosis 23. In a 15m2 habitat, the total
D. meiosis number of Tridax counted using a
1.6m2 quadrant thrown randomly
21. In an experiment to 50 times was 400. What is the
determine the humus in a soil Tridax
sample the following results were
obtained A. 12
B. 16
Mass of dish - 20g C. 8
Mass of dry soil - 7.5g D. 5
Mass of dish + soil after burning
= 25g 24. Which of the following is a
sex-link character?
The percentage of humus in the
given sample is A. Dwarfism
B. Albinism
A. 9.1 C. Tongue rolling
B. 37.5 D. Colour blindness

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25. The outer-most tissue of the A. obtain food
herbaceous roots is the B. predators
C. secure mates
A. cuticle D. escape detection
B. pericycle
C. epidermis 29. Which of the following is the
D. endodermis most advance plant?

26. The respective tissues that A. merchantia

transport water and manufactured B. Dryopteris
food in plants are C. Chlamydomonas
D. Spirogyra
A. xylem and phloem
B. phloem and tracheid 30. The soil type with the least
C. phloem and xylem ability to retain nutrients is
D. xylem and tracheid
A. sandy loam
27. An adaptive feature of plants B. clay loam
in the savanna is C. loam
D. sand
A. fissured bark
B. few grasses 31. A humming bird is able to
C. tall trees feed on nectar because its beak is
D. long lifespan
A. short, slender and ridged
28. A grasshopper's cuticle B. short, strong and conical
becomes green during the season C. long, slender and slightly
and black after fire. The reasons curved
for the change is --- D. long, wide and slightly curved

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Use the diagram to answer the 35. The component of the cell
question that follow that determines paternity resides
in the

A. centrosome
B. ribosome
C. nucleus
32. The part labelled III acts as
D. mitochondria

A. water outlet
36. Which of the following beak
B. food strainer
type is an adaption for aquatic
C. exchange surface
feeding?
D. blood transporter

33. The effect of overcrowding is

A. immigration
B. reduced competition
C. emigration 37. Use the diagram to answer

D. reduced mortality the question that follow

34. The vertebrae that allows the

skull to nod and rotate are

A. axis and cervical The part labelled II is the

B. atlas and thoracis
C. axis and atlas A. arch
D. atlas and cervical B. filament
C. slit
D. raker
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38. The insect-trapping by the
leaves of Venus flytrap is an
example of a
A. adaptive coloration
B. structural adaptation
C. environmental adaptation
D. behaviour adaptation
39. Morphological variation
humans include
A. height, skin, colour and tongue
rolling
B. weight, finger prints and body
shape
C. height, weight and blood group
D. skin colour, blood and height
C. Group B can only donate to
blood group B and not to AB and
O
D. Group O can donate to groups
A, B and AB but cannot receive
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1. B 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. C
in 8. B 9. D 10. C 11. D 12. C 13.
C 14. D 15. D 16. D 17. D 18. A
19. D 20. D
21. B 22. C 23. D 24. B 25. A
26. A 27. D 28. D 29. D 30. D
31. C 32. C 33. C 34. C 35. C
36. B 37. D 38. B 39. B 40. D

40. Which of the following is

correct about blood transfusion?

A. Group AB can only receive

from groups A and B and not from
group O
B. Group O can receive from
groups A and B and from AB

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 2018 JAMB BIOLOGY QUESTIONS

1. A group of closely related 3. The cytoplasm of the cell is

organisms capable of considered a very important
interbreeding to produce fertile component because it
offspring are known as members
of a A. regulates the amount of energy
in the cell
A. kingdom B. suspends all cell organelles
B. class C. is the outermost part of the cell
C. family D. is solely responsible for cell
D. species division

2. A beaker of pond water Use the diagram below to

containing few specimens of answer question 4 to 6
Euglena was placed in a dark
room for two weeks. At the end of
this period, the specimens of
Euglena were still alive because
they were

A. able to carry out holozoic

4. After an hour, the level of
nutrition
water in the thistle funnel will
B. able to carry out
photosynthesis using carbon
A. rise
dioxide in the pond water
B. fall
C. better adapted to life in
C. remain the same
darkness than to life in light
D. double
D. not overcrowded

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5. The experiment is used to A. hydrotropism
demonstrate the process of B. geotropism
C. Phototropism
A. transportation D. thigmotropism
B. water culture
C. diffusion 9. The overall reaction in
D. Osmosis glycolysis can be summarised as

6. In a plant cells, the role of the A. C6H12O5 --C3H4O3 + 4H + ATP

membrane is played by the B. C6H12O6 ---- 2CH4O3 + 4H +
2ATP
A. nucleolus C. C6H12O6---> 2CH4O3 + 4H
B. cell wall + ADP
C. cytoplasm D. C6H12O6 2C3H4O3+ 4H +
D. mitochondrion 2ADP

7. Red blood cells were found to 10. The longest bone in the body
have burst open after being is the
placed in distil for an hour. This
phenomenon is known as A. humerous
B. femur
A. plasmolysis C. scapula
B. diffusion D. tibia
C. haemolysis
D. wilting 11. Which of the following
structures is not a skeletal
8. The curvature movement of material?
plants in response to the stimulus
of water is called A. Chitin

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B. Cartilage 14. Which of the following
C. Bone features is not a characteristic of
D. Muscle arteries? Arteries

12. The reason why the flow of A. possess values at internals

blood through the capillaries is throughout their length.
very slow is B. have thick muscular and elastic
walls
A. because the walls of capillaries C. carry blood away from the
are very thin heart
B. to avoid high — blood pressure D. transport oxygenated blood
C. to ensure that the individual with the exception of the
does not get dizzy pulmonary artery.
D. to allow adequate time for
exchange of materials The graph below shows the
results of a laboratory
13. Which of the following groups investigation which measured
of organisms has kidney as their the body temperatures of a
excretory organ? lizard and a bird under
changing artificial conditions.
A. Fishes, amphibians, birds, man
B. Fishes, amphibians, annelids,
insects
C. Fishes, reptiles, birds,
tapeworms
D. Fishes protozoans, amphibians,
man

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15. Which of the statements 17. The reason why hospitals use
below is valid? saline solutions as drip instead of
water is
A. The bird's blood was always
warmer than that of the lizard. A. because salt is a preservative
B. The body temperature of the B. to prevent contamination of the
bird varied less than that of the body
lizard during changes in C. to maintain the composition of
environmental temperature. body fluids
C. The body temperature of the D. to increase the number of
bird remained constant despite blood cells
changes in environmental
temperature. 18. The part of the ear which
D. The body temperature of the contains nerve cells sensitive to
lizard was always close to that of sound vibrations is the
the environmental temperature.
A. cochlea
16. What physiological term can B. ampulla
be used to describe the regulation C. tympanum
of the body temperature of the D. malleus
lizard?
19. Spectacles with convex lenses
A. Homeostasis correct long-sightedness by
B. Homeothermy
C. Poikilothermy A. converging the Light rays
D. Osmoregulation before they enter the eye
B. diverging the light rays before
they enter the eye

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C. reducing light intensity before D. oxygen cycle
it enters the eye
D. increasing light intensity before 23. What is the critical limiting
it enters the eye factor for plants below the photic
zone in an aquatic ecosystem?
20. A seed of a flowering plant
can best be described as A. Availability of nutrients
B. Availability of water
A. radicle and plumule C. intensity of light
B. the developed ovule D. Carbon dioxide concentration
C. the embryo and endosperm
D. developed ovary 24. Which of the following
instruments is used to estimate
21. Which of the following the number of plants in a habitat?
processes removes carbon from
the atmosphere? A. Pooter
B. Pitfall trap
A. Putrefaction C. Quadrat
B. Photosynthesis D. Sweep net
C. volcanic eruption
D. Burning fuels 25. Which of the following
statements is true about sandy
22. Which of the following cycles soil? It
involves the process of
precipitation and transpiration? A. has limited air space
B. is light and easy to dig
A. Water cycles C. drains slowly
B. Carbon cycle D. is heavy and poorly aerated
C. Nitrogen cycle

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26. Which of the following C. is a producer as well as a
organisms is a primary consumer? consumer
D. is a secondary consumer
A. Dog
B. Sheep 29. Which of the following
C. Grass diseases is not hereditary?
D. Fungus
A. Albinism
Study the diagram of a food B. Scabies
chain shown below and use it C. Haemophilia
to answer question 27 and 28. D. Colour blindness

P→Q→R→S→T 30. The immediate product of

meiosis in flowering plants is the
27. The organism designated P in
the food chain above is normally A. sporophyte
sustained by energy from B. gametophyte
C. zygote
A. sunlight D. pollen grains
B. carbohydrates
C. green plants 31. DNA in eukaryotic cells is
D. mineral salts contained in the

28. Which of the following A. central vacuole

statements best describes the B. nucleus
organism designated R? It C. lysosome
D. golgi body
A. feeds on S.
B. is a primary consumer.

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32. A man who is heterozygous B. diurnal animal
for the disease haemophilia C. terrestrial animal
marries a woman who is double D. homoatomic animal
recessive for haemophilia. What
percentage of their offspring 35. Evidence of evolution include
would have the disease? the following except

A. 0% A. fossil records
B. 25% B. comparative anatomy
C. 50% C. mutation of genes
D. 75% D. geographical distribution of
organisms
33. Cytokinesis of mitosis is a
process that ensures that Use the diagram below to
answer question 36 and 37.
A. each daughter cell gets the
necessary organelle
B. there is distribution of a
complete set of genes into each
daughter cell.
C. daughter cells inherit new
genetic combinations.
D. worn out organelles are
36. The diagram shows that the
excluded from daughter cells
organisms are

34. An animal which is active

A. hermaphrodite
during the day is known as a
B. viviparous
C. oviparous
A. nocturnal animal
D. ovoviparous
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37. The breeding posture 40. The flippers of a whale and
illustrated in the diagram is the fins of a fish are examples of
known as
A. divergent evolution
A. mating B. coevolution
B. amplexus C. continuous variation
C. courtship display D. convergent evolution
D. reproductive swimming
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38. An accurate identification of a
rapist can be carried out by it 1. D 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. C
conducting a 8. A 9. B 10. B 11. D 12. D 13.
A 14. A 15. C 16. C 17. A 18. A
A. RNA analysis 19. A 20. B
B. DNA analysis
C. blood group test 21. B 22. A 23. C 24. C 25. B
D. behavioural traits test 26. B 27. A 28. D 29. B 30. D
31. B 32. C 33. B 34. B 35. D
39. A boy who is fond of 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. A 40. A
swimming in a pond finds himself
passing urine with traces of blood.
He is likely to have contracted

A. schistosomiasis
B. onchocerciasis
C. poliomyelitis
D. salmonellosis

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 2019 JAMB BIOLOGY QUESTIONS

1. The hormone which tones up B. clayey soil

the muscles of a person in time of C. laterite
danger is from the ____ D. podzol.

A. thyroid gland 4.
B. pancreas
C adrenal gland
D. liver

2. Identical twins are produced

under one of the following
Which of the following is the
conditions.
correct order of the
developmental stages?
A. Two ova fertilized at the same
time by two sperms
A. 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 →5
B. One ovum fertilized, divides to
give two embryos B. 5 → 1→ 3 → 2 → 4
C. One ovum fertilized, twins
C. 2 → 1 → 3 → 4 → 5
formed shortly before birth
D. Two ova fertilized by one D. 5 → 3 → 2 → 1 → 4
sperm
E. One ovum fertilized by two 5. When a mixture of a food
sperms substance and Benedict's solution
was warmed, the solution
3. A soil consisting of alumina and changed from blue to brick-red.
iron (II) oxide is known as ____ This indicates the presence of
____
A. loamy soil

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A. fatty acid A. xylem
B. sucrose B companion cells
C. amino acid C. sieve tubes
D. reducing sugar D. cambium.

6. An association between the 9. The only vein that carries pure

root nodule of a leguminous plant oxygenated blood is the ____
and Rhizobium sp. is known as
____ A. renal vein
B. pulmonary vein
A. commensalism C. hepatic vein
B. mycorrhiza D. sciatic vein
C. parasitism
D. symbiosis 10. Tsetse fly is harmful to man
because it is associated with the
7. Homologous pairs of spread of ____
chromosomes separate during
____ A. river blindness
B. malaria
A. Cytolysis C. sleeping sickness
B. Cleavage D. leprosy
C. Mitosis
D. Meiosis 11. The dental formula represents
that of ____
8. Substances manufactured by
the leaves are transported to A. an omnivore
other parts of the plant through B. a detritus feeder
the ____ C. a carnivore
D. a herbivore

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12. The pollutants that contribute black precipitate. This indicates
to the depletion of the ozone layer the presence of ____
in the atmosphere are ____
A. fats and oils
A. radioactive materials B. proteins
B. oxides of sulphur C. amino acids
C. oxides of carbon D. starch
D. chlorofluorocarbons
16. In the transverse section of a
13. The irreversible life process by dicot stem, the region lying
which new protoplasm is added to between the endodermis and the
increase the size and weight of an vascular bundle is the ____
organism can be termed ____
A. parenchyma
A. anabolism B. pericycle
B. catabolism C. phloem
C. growth D. hypodermis
D. development
17. The phloem parenchyma is
14. An example of a caryopsis is sometimes used for ____
____
A. food storage
A. Guava B. supporting the stem
B. Maize grain C. production of the sieve tube
C. Coconut D. transporting water
D.Tomato
18. Which of the following factors
15. Osmic acid boiled with a is LEAST likely to affect the
solution of food substance gave a

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animals living in a freshwater 21. Night-blindness results from a
habitat? deficiency of ____

A. Turbidity A. vitamin E
B. Temperature B. vitamin A
C. pH C. vitamin K
D. Salinity D. vitamin C

19. Which of these animals is 22. Which of the following is a

radially symmetrical? polysaccharide?

A. Squid A. Glucose.
B. Hydra B. Sucrose
C. Snail C. Maltose
D. Cockroach D. Cellulose

20. Which sequence represents 23. The element that is essential

the correct order of organisms in for the coagulation of blood is
a food chain? 1. Toad 2. Mucuna ____
3. Grasshopper 4. Snake 5.
Hawk A. potassium
B. calcium

A. 5→4→1→3→2 C. phosphorus
D. iron
B. 1→2→3→4→5

C. 2→1→3→4→5 24. The soil with the highest

water-retaining capacity is ____
D. 2→3→1→4→5

A. clayey soil

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B. stoney soil 28. The mode of nutrition of
C. sandy soil sundew and bladderwort can be
D. loamy soil described as ____

25. Underground stems which A. saprophytic

grow horizontally through the soil B. holozoic
are ____ C. chemosynthetic
D. autótrophic
A. bulbs
B. rhizomes 29. In man, spermatozoa are
C. runners never found in the ____
D. corms
A. testis
26. A green plant growing in a B. urethra
compost pit is feeding ____ C. epididymis
D. prostate gland
A. holozoically
B. parasitically 30. A good example of a
C. saprophytically disploblastic organism is ____
D. holophytically
A. amoeba
27. The main function of the B. hydra
choroid is ____ C. earthworm
D. roundworm
A. protection of the eyeball
B. transmission of light
C. supply of nutrients to tissues of
the eye
D. converging light

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 because of reabsorption in the
____

A. Bowman's capsule
B. urethra
C. ureter
D. loop of Henle

34. Which vertebra has a

projection called odontoid
What stage during cell division is
process?
represented in the figure below?

A. Atlas
A. Prophase
B. Axis
B. Metaphase
C. Thoracic
C. Anaphase
D. Lumbar
D. Telophase

35. The diseases caused by

32. The association between
waterborne pathogens include
termites and the cellulose-
____
digesting protozoans in their guts
is an example of ____
A. gonorrhoea and poliomyelitis
B. typhoid and syphilis
A. saprophytísm
C. tuberculosis and cholera
B. mutualism
D. typhoid and cholera
C. parasitism
D. commensalism
36. In Amoeba, osmoregulation is
carried out by the ____
33. Mammals are capable of
producing hypertonic urine mainly
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A. pseudopodium A. nitrites
B. food vacuole B. nitric acid
C. contractile vacuole C. nitrates
D. nucleus D. nitrous oxide

40. Which of these animals is NOT

metamerically segmented?

A. Tapeworm
B. Earthworm
C. Shark
The structure labelled III
D. Crayfish
represents the ____

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A. mandible
B. palp
1. C 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. D
C. proboscis
8. D 9. B 10. C 11. D 12. A 13.
D. labium
C 14. B 15. A 16. B 17. A 18. D
19. B 20. D
38. Which of the following is a
sex-linked character?
21. B 22. D 23. B 24. A 25. B
26. A 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. B
A. Sickle-cell anaemia
31. C 32. B 33. D 34. B 35. D
B. Tongue rolling
36. C 37. A 38. D 39. A 40. C
C. Skin colour
D. Colour blindness

39. The nitrifying bacteria,

Nitrosomonas, convert ammonia
to ____
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 2020 JAMB BIOLOGY QUESTIONS

1. 6CO₂ + 6H₂O Sunlight  D. surrounded by a membrane

C6H12O6 +6O₂ ↑
4. What would happen if solution
The process represented by the
Y is more concentrated than
above equation is ____
solution X in the figure below?

A. proteinsynthesis
B. respiration
C. photosynthesis
D. transpiration

2. Which one of the following

options is not true for Mucor of
Rhizopus? It ____

A. grows on moist dead organic

matter
A. The level of X would rise, Y
B. is a plant
would fall
C. has cellulose cell wall
B. The level of X would rise, Y
D. reproduces asexually by
would rise
producing spores
C. The levels of X and Y would
stay the same
3. The vacuole of a plant cell is
D. The level of Y would rise, X
____
would fall

A. a large empty space

5. A pyramid of numbers can be
B. smaller than that of an animal
defined as ____
cell
C. filled with air
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A. the number of plants and 8. Water retention is highest in
animals in an ecosystem soils which are rich in ____
B. an arrangement of organisms
according to their habitats A. sand, poor in humus and
C. the numerical relationships of a devoid of clay
food chain B. clay and sand, but poor in
D. the number of plants and humus
animals in a population C. clay and humus, but poor in
sand
6. Which of the following D. clay, poor in humus and devoid
instruments is used for of sand
determining turbidity of water?
9. Viruses are regarded as non-
A. Thermometer living because they ____
B. Secchi disc
C. Rain gauge A. can neither reproduce
D. Hygrometer asexually nor sexually
B. cannot survive in their
7. In a Biuret test, some protein respective environments
was mixed with sodium hydroxide C. do not possess characteristics
solution. Which of the following that can be transmitted from one
chemicals should be added to the generation to the next
mixture for a positive result? D. can neither respire nor excrete

A. Mercurous nitrate 10. The correct sequence of

B. Copper sulphate tissues in the anatomy of a young
C. Mercuric nitrate dicotyledonous stem from the
D. Sodium carbonate inside to the outside is ____

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A. pith, phloem, cambium, xylem, D. shorter transverse process
parenchyma, collenchyma and
epidermis 13. Which of the following is
B. xylem, phloem, cambium, formed immediately after the first
cortex, endodermis, collenchyma product of photosynthesis?
and epidermis
C. pith, xylem, cambium, phloem. A. Lipid
collenchyma, parenchyma and B. Starch
epidermis C. Oxygen
D. phloem, xylem, cambium, D. Sugar
cortex, endodermis, collenchyma
and epidermis 14. Fibrinogen and prothrombin
play important roles in the ____
11. Taxism differs from tropism
because ____ A. deamination of proteins
B. clotting of blood
A. the whole organism is affected C. detoxification of substances
B. it is a directional movement D. storage of vitamins
C. it is a response to multi-
directional stimuli 15. The flow of air and water in or
D. part of the organism is affected out of the mesophyll layer of a
leaf is controlled by the
12. The lumbar vertebra when
compared with a thoracic vertebra A. stomata
has a ____ B. lenticels
C. air spaces
A. longer neural spine D. guard cells
B. wider neural canal
C. thicker centrum 16. Flame cells are the ____

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A. excretory system of worms C. formation of urea
B. excretory and respiratory D. formation of antibody
systems of flatworms
C. secretory system of flatworms 20. The small masses of nervous
D. excretory system of flatworms tissue in which many neurones
have their nuclei are called ____
17. The part of the brain that
controls heartbeat and breathing A. dorsal roots
is the ____ B. ventral roots
C. ganglia
A. olfactory lobe D. synapses
B. cerebellum
C. cerebral hemisphere 21. Mammals acclimatize to
D. medulla oblongata reduced oxygen content at high
altitudes by ____
18. In a tropical rainforest, non-
epiphytic ferns and allies occur as A. the stimulation of marrow to
____ reduce the amount of
erythrocytes produced
A. middle storey species B. increasing the rate at which
B. upper storey species erythrocytes are destroyed
C. shade-loving species C. the stimulation of marrow to
D. emergent species produce more erythrocytes
D. increasing the breakdown of
19. The process of deamination is the protein portion of the
essential for the ____ erythrocytes

A. digestion of protein 22. The inner ear contains two

B. secretion of bile main organs, namely, the ____

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A. eardrum and eustachian tube their offspring that will be either
B. cochlea and semicircular canals carriers or 'sicklers' is ____
C. oval window and ossicles
D. pinna and cochlea A. 75%
B. 50%
23. The factor that least affects C. 25%
food shortages in sub saharan D. 100%
Africa is ____
26. One adaptation of reptiles to
A. flooding water loss is the presence of ____
B. pests
C. mixed cropping A. keratinous scales
D. drought B. claws on limbs
C. long tails
24. In a field experiment, the D. long sticky tongues
frequency of water leaf was
observed to be 48 after 20 tosses 27. An evidence of a common
of a 2m² quadrat. What is the ancestry for fishes, amphibians,
density of the plant in the field? reptiles, birds and mammals is
the ____
A. 1.2per m²
B. 2.4 per m² A. possession of wings by birds
C. 4.8 per m² and bats
D. 9.6 per m² B. cold-bloodedness of fishes,
amphibians and reptiles
25. A man and his wife are both C. presence of gill clefts in
heterozygous for the sickle cell vertebrate embryos
trait. The likely percentage of D. possession of scales by fishes
and reptiles

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28. One basic similarity between A. schistosomiasis
nervous and endocrine system is B. onchocerciasis
that they both ____ C. poliomyelitis
D. salmonellosis
A. produce widespread effects
B. transmit very fast impulses 31. According to Darwin, the
C. involve the use of chemical driving force behind evolutionary
substances change is ____
D. produce precise and short-lived
effects A. natural selection
B. genetic drift
29. A crucible of 5 gm weighed 10 C. mutation
gm after filling with fresh soil. It D. gene flow
is then heated in an oven at
100°C for 1 hour. After cooling in I. Adoption of appropriate
a desiccator, the weight was 8 nocturnal habits
gm. The percentage of water in II. Burrowing
the soil is ____ III. Adjusting their internal
body temperature
A. 80% IV. Possession of many sweat
B. 60% pores
C. 20%
D. 40% 32. Which of the above are ways
in which desert animals adapt to
30. A boy who is fond of extreme heat of the environment?
swimming in a pond finds himself
passing urine with traces of blood. A. II and III only
He is likely to have contracted B. I and II only
____ C. I, II and III only

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D. I and IV only 35. Which of the above correctly
describes the growth pattern in
33. An example of an plants?
endospermous seed is ____
A. I, II and III only.
A. cotton seed B. II and III only.
B. bean seed C. I and II only.
C. maize grain D. I and III only.
D. cashew nut
36. Adaptive radiation is
34. The water cycle is maintained illustrated in ____
mainly by ____
A. modified insect mouthparts.
A. evaporation of water in the B. dentition in mammals.
environment C. wings in birds and bats.
B. evaporation and condensation D. appendages in insects.
of water in the environment
C. condensation of water in the 37. The disaster that would have
environment the least destructive impact on
D. transpiration and respiration in animal life and balance in nature
plants is ____

I Growth is mainly apical. A. chemical pollution

II Growth is specific with B. forest fires
definite shape. C. oil spillage
III Growth is throughout life. D. grasshopper pests

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38. Fatigue of leg muscles may
occur after riding many kilometers
on a bicycle because of ____
A. insufficient glucose
B. excess carbon dioxide
C. excess protein
D. insufficient oxygen
39. An example of monohybrid
inheritance in man is ____
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1. C 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. B
8. D 9. D 10. C 11. A 12. C 13.
B 14. B 15. C 16. D 17. D 18. C
19. C 20. C
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. A
26. A 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. A
31. A 32. B 33. B 34. B 35. D
36. B 37. D 38. D 39. D 40. D

A. astigmatism
B. cretinism
C. hyperthyroidism
D. albinism

40. The greatest amount of

energy will be obtained by the
oxidation of 100kg of ____

A. meat
B. butter
C. sugar
D. biscuits

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