Biology Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Biology is the study of life and living things. It can be divided into different areas that look at the structure, function, anatomy, and behavior of organisms.

• Question 521: Scales on reptiles are a feature for Options:
  A) conserving water
  B) conserving food
  C) protecting the skin
  D) locomotion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 522: Which of the following characteristics is common to Amoeba and Paramecium? Options:
  A) Oral groove
  B) Trichocyst
  C) Contractile vacuole
  D) Cilia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 523: Which of these products obtained from analyzing sweat from skin is not an excretory product? Options:
  A) water
  B) Salts
  C) Dust
  D) Urea
  E) Urates
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 524: The study of organism and the environment of an abandoned farmland is the ecology of? Options:
  A) a community
  B) a population
  C) a specie
  D) a habitat
  E) an ecosystem
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 525: In the kidney of mammals, the site of ultrafiltration is the Options:
  A) uriniferous tubule
  B) Bowman's capsule
  C) loop of Henle
  D) renal tubule
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 526:

  Study the diagram of a food chain shown and use it to answer the question.

  P ---> Q ---> R ---> S ---> T

  Which of the following statements best describes the organism designated R? It

  Options:
  A) feeds on S
  B) is a primary consumer
  C) is a producer as well as a consumer
  D) is a secondary consumer
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 527: The major function of the swim-bladder in fishes is Options:
  A) breathing
  B) buoyancy
  C) swimming
  D) diving
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 528: A peculiar characteristics of mammals is that they Options:
  A) have teeth
  B) are warm-blooded
  C) have lungs
  D) have sabaceous glands
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 529: The function of the epididymis in mammals is the Options:
  A) expulsion of urine
  B) storage of sperms
  C) circulation of blood
  D) activation of sperms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 530:

  

  Use the diagram above to answer this question.

  The part labelled l is the

  Options:
  A) spongy mesophyll
  B) upper epidemis
  C) cuticle
  D) vein
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  The correct answer is C .