Biology Past Questions And Answers
When synthesizing a strand of double-stranded DNA, which of the following could be a plausible combination of nitrogen bases?
- A. 28% Adenine, 22% cytosine, 22% guanine, 28% thymine
- B. 23% Adenine, 23% cytosine, 27% guanine, 27% uracil
- C. 48% Adenine, 52% cytosine, 52% guanine, 48% thymine
- D. 24% Adenine, 24% cytosine, 26% guanine, 26% thymine
Which of the following pairs of organisms exist as colonies?
- A. Obelia and Euglena
- B. Pandorina and Volvox
- C. Chlamydomonas and Amoeba
- D. Hydra and Spirogyra
Which of the following statements about the circulation of water in nature is not correct? Water
- A. constantly evaporates from seas, rivers, lakes and soil
- B. vapour rises, cools, condenses and precipitates as rain and dew
- C. removed from ocean is permanently lost
- D. is lost in plants by transpiratin and decay
Which of the following blood vessels carries oxygenated blood away from the heart?
- A. Arteries
- B. Venules
- C. Capillaries
- D. Veins
The animals that move by means of flagella include
- A. Chlamydomonas and Euglena
- B. Planeria and Amoeba
- C. Amoeba and Hydra
- D. Paramecium and Planeria
Which of the following is NOT an excretory product of animals?
- A. carbondioxide
- B. urea
- C. sweat
- D. oxygen
The biological association that contributes directly to succession in a community is
- A. competition
- B. predation
- C. parasitism
- D. commensalism
Which of the following associations is an example of mutualism
- A. hydra viridis and zoochlorellae
- B. human and lice
- C. shark and remora fish
- D. bread and rhizopus stolonifer
The following are abiotic components of an ecosystem except
- A. temperature
- B. oxygen
- C. bacteria
- D. soil
Which of the following characteristics differentiates a palisade cell from a liver cell? The possession of
- A. a cell wall and a cytoplasm
- B. a vacuole and a nucleus
- C. non-cell membrane and chloroplast
- D. a cell wall and chloroplast

