JAMB UTME - Biology - 1980

Which one of the following animals is NEVER a secondary host of tapeworms?

The lime water in container B turned milky because

For pollination and fruit formation, the essential part(s) of the flower should be the

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

In anaerobic respiration, glucose is converted to one of the following

The organ through which food and oxygen are supplied to the human embryo and which also prevents harmful materials from reaching the embryo is the

In Mucor or Rhizopus carbohydrate is absorb in the form of

The filament of spirogyra were put into equal volumes of sugar solutions X and Y. After 5 minutes, filaments from solution X had their cells contents rounded up while those from Y were unaffected. The experiment shows that

Which of the following spreads malaria in Nigeria?

Which of the following hormones is produced during fright or when agitated?

The center which controls respiratory activities the mammalian brain is the

One of the following statement is NOT true of spirogyra

Biconcave lenses are used in the correction of an eye defect called?

During thunderstorms the energy of lightning discharge causes

Milk can be pasteurized by

A green plant growing in a compost pit is feeding

which part of the human brain is concerned with reflexes controlling the rate of heart beat and breathing?

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

An organism X lives entirely on the waste products in another organism Y. In this association X is a

Which of the labelled parts is the venga caval opening?

The conversion of excess amino acids into urea occurs in the

The amount of water loss from a leaf can be detected using

The lime water in container C turned milky because

A true fruit is formed from

In animals, cilia, flagella, pseudopodia and chaetae, can be used for

Which one of the following parts of the mammalian body is most closely associated with the production of urine?

Below are some group of diseases. Which group of diseases is caused by bacteria?

Which of the following food substances is digested in the stomach?

The joint between the atlas and axis vertebrae allows for

The vacuole of a plant cell is

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

The testa

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 potometer is used to determine the rate at which a shoot

Which of the following organs produces bile?

Some of the features of an animal are scales, teeth, nares and backbone. The animal is likely to be a

The part of the cell solely responsible for respiration is the

If a baby is a female, her mother's ovum must have been fertilized by a sperm carry the chromosome

During excretion of urea there is also a corresponding re-absorption of water into the blood. This re-absorption takes place in the

The following are connected with the movement of a reflex action (1) Central nervous (2) Muscles (3) Skin (4) Sensory nerve (5) Motor nerve. Which of the following sequences indicates a correct path?

A fresh Kolanut weighing 1g was put into salt solution. After 3 hour, the kolanut weighed 1.2g. This simple experiment demonstration that

Reserved food materials is

In the figure above the structure which prevents friction between the bones is

Water is required for seed germination to take place because it

Human beings require vitamins in their diet because vitamins

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

Why is the part labelled 5 thicker than 6?

If the bark and phloem tissue of a woody shoot are peeled off by ringing, the whole plant will die eventually die because?

A student trying to find out the order in which organisms appear on a cleared plot is studying one of the following

Leguminous plants, e.g Mucana, are usually planted in cultivated farmlands because they