BIOLOGY POST UTMEBy Acadlly BIOLOGY POST UTME/POST JAMB Practice the Biology Post UTME for Universities, Polytechnics and College of Education with our CBT software and pass your biology examination. 0% 20 BIOLOGY POST UTME BIOLOGY POST UTME BIOLOGY POST UTMEPractice the Biology Post UTME / POST JAMB with our CBT questions and answers software and pass in flying colours 1 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Ribosomes are found in all living cells. What is their function? synthesis of proteins excretion of waste products cellular respiration intracellular transport 2 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME An ecosystem is composed of all of the following except: Animals Plants Temperature Meadows 3 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of this is not a shape of fingerprints circles whorls loop arches 4 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of this is not a continuous variation weight tongue rolling height skin colour 5 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In the mammal, the autonomic system consists of sympathetic and parasympathetic systems brain and spinal nerves spinal cord and spinal nerves brain and cranial nerves 6 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Plants that are adapted to grow in dry land where water content is low are Hydrophytes Xerophytes Halophytes Mesophytes 7 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The random way genes recombine during meiosis and fertilization leads to phenotype genotype genetic variation genome 8 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The sexual reproductive units produced by mature individuals of sexually reproducing species of organism is called sperms gametes zygotes ova 9 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Circulation of blood to all parts of the body excepts the lungs is through The pulmonary artery The lymphatic system Systemic circulation Pulmonary circulation 10 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The theory that new organs or characteristics develop in organisms when there is a need for them was postulated by Lean Lamarck Wallace Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel 11 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is not an excretory structure kidney flame cell blood stomata 12 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The hereditary factor of the material for inheritance is gene sex ovum organ 13 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a food web, tertiary consumers belong to which trophic level Fourth Third First Second 14 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of these animals is not metamerically segmented earthworm shark centipede tapeworm 15 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following is NOT a function of the nucleus of a cell? It stores and carries hereditary information It is a reservoir of energy for the cell It translates genetic information for the manufacture of proteins It controls the life processes of the cell 16 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In plants, the structures that play roles similar to the arteries and veins of animals are the Lenticels and phloem roots and stems Root hairs and xylem Xylem and Phloem 17 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Principles of heredity can be applied in one of these biology chemistry law medicine 18 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following are usually worm-like, cylindrical or flattened insects molluscs annelids nematods 19 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME One of the following is usually worm-like, cylindrical or flattened insects nematods annelids molluscs 20 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of these does not have respiratory and circulatory systems insects molluscs nematods annelids 21 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The muscle cell fluid of an athlete was tested immediately after a 100m race and was found to contain a high concentration of lactic acid. Explain what could have caused this. The athlete must have injected lactic acid into his blood just before the race athlete must have inhaled lactic acid from the environment during the race athlete must have eaten food containing a lactic acid athlete must have carried out anaerobic respiration during the race 22 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Spear grass has underground structure called bulbs tap roots rhizomes corm 23 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Carbohydrates are stored in animal cells as maltase glucose glycogen starch 24 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following constitutes the main internal tissue of leaf? Vascular bundle Mesophyll Lower epidermis Cuticle 25 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following is used mainly for balancing in fish? The anal fin The caudal fin The dorsal fin The pectoral fin 26 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The roots hairs are absorption of water and salt penetration into the soil strength and support conducting liquid 27 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a food web, tertiary consumers belong to which trophic level Third Fourth Second First 28 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The cocoon into which an earthworm lays its egg is produced in the clitellum chaeta peristomium prostomium 29 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Octopus is popularly known as __________ fish devil shark cray jelly 30 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The genetic make- up of an organism is called genotype gene variation phenotype 31 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In a cell, the genes are carried by lysosomes Nuclear membrane Chromatin threads Mitochondria 32 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME S phase in growth curve is known as? rapid phase shot phase end Phase long phase 33 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In bony fishes, the swim bladder is used for extracting oxygen from water which enters the mouth of the fish equalizing fluid pressures between the fish and the surrounding water absorbing more water when the fish is about to descend to a lower level adjusting the weight of the fish when swimming at different levels 34 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The rhesus factor of blood was first identified in a category of Human females Monkeys Human males Chimpanzees 35 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME What happens to a man whose pancreas has been surgically removed? his blood pressure would decrease the glycogen content of the liver would increase the level of blood sugar would increase his weight would increase appreciably 36 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Maize is best stored against insect attack in humid metal tanks on raised platform in fumigated silos while still on the cob 37 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The division of nucleus is known as cytokinesis isopomy karyokinesis isogamy 38 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The primary structure responsible for pumping blood for circulation through the mammalian circulatory systems is the Veins Arteries Right auricle Left ventricle 39 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME In insects, the structure that performs the same function as the kidney in man is the Trachea Nephridium Flame cell Malphigian tubule 40 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The sterile individuals in the honey bee are known as Queens Drone Workers None of these 41 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME What is the term used to describe the sum total of biotic and abiotic factors in the environment of the organism? habitat ecological niche biome ecosystem 42 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Daughters receives their X-chromosome from their relative mother father siblings 43 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Two plants with red flowers were back crossed, which of the following results indicates that the plants are heterozygous red flower, where red flowers are dominants? 100% red 50% red and 50% white 75%red and 25% white 100% white 44 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME A sudden change in a gene or genes is called mutation heredity variation fertilization 45 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Genetically modified food products have not become universally accepted because they are usually costlier than others produced by conventional means they are not tasty as others produced by conventional means their effect on human consumers is not yet fully understood the technology can be applied only in developed countries 46 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Which of the following factors is not associated with aquatic habitat Wave action Humidity Temperature Light intensity 47 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME Manufactured food in the plants is transported through the cortex xylem cambium phloem 48 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The order of food passage in the digestive system is Colon-Cecum-Ileum-Rectum Ileum-Colon-Cecum-Rectum Ileum-Cecum-Colon-Rectum Colon-Ileum-Cecum-Rectum 49 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The random way genes recombine during meiosis and fertilization leads to genotype genetic variation genome phenotype 50 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY POST UTME The reproduction of cell is controlled by which of the following: DNA RNA mRNA Mitosis Insert your name and email to see your scoreThank you and goodluck Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Please rate us. 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