Agricultural Science JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

22

In the diagram above, what kind of identification method is illustrated?

  • A. Tagging
  • B. Neck chaining
  • C. Ear notching
  • D. Branding
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23

In the poultry equipments above, which quality of eggs is associated with the equipment labelled I?

  • A. Size
  • B. Fertility
  • C. Colour
  • D. Price
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24

Which of the following equipment from the poultry equipments illustrated above could be used in the place of the equipment labelled II in the management of chicks?

  • A. Incubator
  • B. Feeder
  • C. Electric bulb
  • D. Egg candler
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25

Which of the above illustrated poultry equipment is not used in a brooder house?

  • A. I
  • B. II
  • C. III
  • D. IV
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26

In the diagram above which shows the digestive tract for a certain farm animal, which of the following enzymes is not secreted by the part labelled III?

  • A. Pepsin
  • B. Amylase
  • C. Lipase
  • D. Trypsin
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27

In the diagram above showing the digestive tract of a certain farm animal, the digestion of protein starts in the part labelled

  • A. I
  • B. II
  • C. III
  • D. IV
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28

The diagram above is the digestive tract of a farm animal. What farm animal is being referred to?

  • A. turkey
  • B. cattle
  • C. pig
  • D. goat
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29

Which of the following practices is an example of a cultural weed control method?

  • A. Use of insects
  • B. Mowing
  • C. Application of herbicides
  • D. Mulching
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30

Which of the following insect-pests does not attack cotton?

  • A. Aphid
  • B. Cotton stainer
  • C. Weevil
  • D. Pink bollworm
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31

Insect-pests of crops could be controlled by

  • A. cover-cropping
  • B. mulching
  • C. crop rotation
  • D. organic manuring
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32

Which of the following pairs of diseases attack coffee?

  • A. Mosaic and smut
  • B. Smut and ridge
  • C. Rust and mosaic
  • D. Rust and leaf spot
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33

Which of the following practices is not a way of maintaining ornamental plants?

  • A. Pruning
  • B. Weeding
  • C. Watering
  • D. Harvesting
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34

Which of the following methods of plant propagation is limited to plants which root easily?

  • A. Grafting and cutting
  • B. Layering and cutting
  • C. Budding and layering
  • D. Grafting and layering
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35

A raw material that could be obtained from the forest is

  • A. margarine
  • B. honey
  • C. mutton
  • D. butter
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36

A breeding method which involves the production of heterozygous populations from homozygous lines is

  • A. inbreeding
  • B. introduction
  • C. selection
  • D. hybridization
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37

Imported plants are expected to be

  • A. vaccinated
  • B. improved upon
  • C. treated
  • D. quarantined
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38

Heat treatment of oil palm seeds before sowing helps to

  • A. mobilize nutrients for the embryo
  • B. harden the mesocarp
  • C. break embryo dormancy
  • D. improve disease resistance
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39

The correct sequence of pre-planting operations in

  • A. \(clearing \to stumping \to ploughing \to harrowing\)
  • B. \(stumping \to ploughing \to harrowing \to clearing\)
  • C. \(bulldozing \to harrowing \to stumping \to ploughing\)
  • D. \(clearing \to bulldozing \to stumping \to harrowing\)
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40

If rows of crops are spaced 1.0m apart with one seed sown per stand, determine the spacing between stands to obtain a plant population of 40,000 plants per hectare.

  • A. 0.25m
  • B. 0.45m
  • C. 0.50m
  • D. 1.00m
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41

In the above diagram, what crop roots are represented?

  • A. a legume
  • B. a cereal
  • C. a tuber
  • D. a spice
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42

The presence of excess water in the colloids of soil particles is known as

  • A. drainage
  • B. waterlogging
  • C. irrigation
  • D. leaching
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