The mushroom is an organism which feeds
- A. parasitically
- B. saprophytically
- C. holozoically
- D. symbiotically
- E. autotrophically
Which of the following insects has an incomplete metamorphosis during its life circle?
- A. Butterfly
- B. Bee
- C. Mosquito
- D. House-fly
- E. Grasshopper
The kind of teeth used for tearing food materials is the
- A. fang
- B. canine
- C. premolar
- D. carnassial
- E. incisor
Which of the following is the dental formula of man?
- A. i(2/2) c(0/1) pm(2/2) m(3/3)
- B. i(2/2) c(1/1) pm(2/0) m(3/3)
- C. i(2/2) c(1/1) pm(2/2) m(3/3)
- D. i(2/2) c(1/1) pm(3/3) m(2/2)
- E. i(2/2) c(1/1) pm(2/3) m(3/3)
Where is the food stored in yam plant?
- A. stem
- B. Bud
- C. Adventitous root
- D. Leaves
- E. Tap root
What is the genetic ratio of a cross between homozygous tall plant and a homozygous dwarf plant?
- A. 0 tall : 4 short
- B. 3 tall : 1 short
- C. 2 short : 2 tall
- D. 1 tall : 1 short
- E. 4 tall : o short
Which of the following animals is cold blooded
- A. Cat
- B. Lizard
- C. Whale
- D. Bird
- E. Horse
Which of the following is NOT true of wind-pollinated flowers?
- A. A large amount of pollen produced
- B. Light smooth pollen grains
- C. Small inconspicuous flowers
- D. Scented petals
- E. Large pendulous anther
In animals, cilia, flagella, pseudopodia and chaetae, can be used for
- A. reproduction
- B. fighting
- C. attachment to plants
- D. locomotion
- E. locating sensation
The amount of water loss from a leaf can be detected using
- A. lime-water
- B. red litmus paper
- C. blue litmus paper
- D. blue cobalt chloride paper
- E. pink cobalt chloride paper
A mosquito which produces eggs which float, and whose larvae lie horizontal to the water surface, also rests at the angle on a vertical surface. This type of mosquito is
- A. Aedes
- B. Anopheles
- C. Culex
- D. Tiger mosquito
- E. none of the above
Below are some group of diseases. Which group of diseases is caused by bacteria?
- A. Tuberculosis, smallpox
- B. Gonorrhoea, measles
- C. Tuberculosis, polio
- D. Sleeping sickness, measles
- E. Syphilis, gonorrhoea
Oxygen from the atmosphere reaches the mammalian blood stream through one of the path indicated below. Indicate the correct path, a = mouth, b = trachea, c = bronchiole, d = nostril, e = bronchus, f = alveoli
- A. a → b → e → f → d
- B. b → d → f → e → c
- C. d → b → e → c → f
- D. b → a → f → e → c
- E. f → e → c → d → c
A few grams of dried soil were first heated until red hot and then further heated until no more smoke was released. This experiment was to determine
- A. amount of water in soil
- B. percentage of water in soil
- C. presence of humus in soil
- D. resistance of laterities to heat
- E. release of smoke from the soil
During thunderstorms the energy of lightning discharge causes
- A. oxygen and nitrogen to combine
- B. more carbon dioxide to be formed
- C. nitrites to be converted to nitrates
- D. nitrates to be converted to nitrogen
- E. death
Leguminous plants, e.g Mucana, are usually planted in cultivated farmlands because they
- A. enrich the soil with phoshates
- B. provide animals with food
- C. enrich the soil with organic nitrogen
- D. protect the soil from being over-heated
- E. protect the micro organisms in the soil
If a baby is a female, her mother’s ovum must have been fertilized by a sperm carry the chromosome
- A. X
- B. XY
- C. XX
- D. YY
- E. Y
if three 30 cm lengths of glass tubes are tightly packed with clay, sand and loamy soils respectively and then stood in a beaker of water for one week, the level of water will be
- A. lowest in the tube with clay
- B. the same in all tubes
- C. lowest in the tube with loamy soil
- D. highest in the tube with sandy soil
- E. lowest in the tube with sandy soil
The tips of some rice seedlings were cut off while some were left intact. Both were covered with a container which had not only one small hole to allow light through. After twenty-four hours it was observed that
- A. the cut tips was bent away from the light
- B. the cut tips bent towards source of light
- C. the intact tips bent away from the light
- D. the intact tips bent towards the light
- E. both tips bent away from light
An organism X lives entirely on the waste products in another organism Y. In this association X is a
- A. symbiont
- B. commensal
- C. saprophyte
- D. parasite
- E. epiphyte
A student trying to find out the order in which organisms appear on a cleared plot is studying one of the following
- A. Ecosystem
- B. Food chain
- C. Food web
- D. Succession
- E. Community