Biology Past Questions And Answers
If a nursing mother is not producing enough milk, her hormonal system is probably deficient in
- A. prolactin
- B. testosterone
- C. thyroxin
- D. insulin
If both parents are heterozygous for a trait. the probability that an offspring will be recessive for that trait is?
- A. 1/2
- B. 1/4
- C. 1
- D. 3/4
Effectors are
- A) muscles which work in response to the stimulus received from the motor nerves
- B) glands which work in response to the stimulus received from the motor nerves
- C) muscles or glands which work in response to the stimulus received from the motor nerves
- D) efferent neurons
Human somatic cells are made up of X and Y chromosome. However chromosome is found in
- A) zygote
- B) Ovum
- C) sperm cell
- D) cell of female
A feature of the caste system of bees and termites ia that
- A. the workers are sterile
- B. the kings are bigger than the queens
- C. only the worker perform duties
- D. nuptial flight is performed by all members
Squirrels easily kill some trees because
- A. they inject poisonous substances into the trees.
- B. most trees are susceptible to squirrel bites
- C. they feed voraciously on the roots
- D. they gnaw the bark and destroy
Muscles are indirectly attached to bones by means of
- A. ligaments
- B. membranes
- C. tendons
- D. sutures
One of these is not found in Urine
- A) Water
- B) Sodium chloride
- C) Nitrogenous compounds
- D) Calcium chloride
Which of the following answer choices describes a difference between DNA and RNA?
- A. RNA has a main sugar of ribose while DNA has a main sugar of deoxyribose
- B. All of these
- C. RNA exists almost exclusively as a single stranded nucleic acid, while DNA generally is double stranded.
- D. RNA uses uracil nucleotides instead of thymine nucleotides
There is a certain type of chemical bonding between the paired nucleotides on each strand of DNA which helps maintain the double-helix structure of DNA by attracting each strand to the other. What type of bonding is responsible for this?
- A. Ionic
- B. Covalent
- C. Phosphodiester
- D. Hydrogen

