Biology Past Questions And Answers
The movement of the whole organism to an external stimulus is termed
- A. tropism
- B. a taxis
- C. a nastic movement
- D. a phototropic movement
The factor that least affects food shortages in sub-saharan Africa is
- A. flooding
- B. pests
- C. mixed-cropping
- D. drought
The rate of heart beat in an adult human being is
- A) 71 beats per minute
- B) 72 beats per minute
- C) 73 beats per minute
- D) 74 beats per minute
The first scientist to describe the cell was
- A) Theodore Schwann
- B) Felix Dujardin
- C) Robert Hooke
- D) Charles
The sum total of adaptive changes from pre-existing form that have taken place over a long time resulting in diversity of forms, structures and functions among organism is referred to as
- A. Specification
- B. Inorganic Evolution
- C. Evolution
- D. Organic Evolution
In aerobic respiration, oxidative phosphorylation takes place in
- A) cytoplasm
- B) lysosome
- C) microchondrion
- D) ribosomes
With respect to DNA, the terms 3' and 5' (pronounced 3-prime and 5-prime, respectively) are used in order to refer to one strand or the other. What do these two terms signify?
- A. 3' refers to the unbound hydroxyl group and 5' refers to the unbound carboxyl group at the end of each DNA strand. .
- B. 3' refers to the unbound hydroxyl group and 5' refers to the unbound phosphate group at the end of each DNA strand.
- C. 3' refers to the unbound methyl group and 5' refers to the unbound hydroxyl group at the end of each DNA strand.
- D. 3' refers to the unbound sulfhydral group and 5' refers to the unbound phosphate group at the end of each DNA strand
Inhaled air is made warm and moist in the
- A. epiglottis
- B. nasal cavity
- C. trachea
- D. mouth
One disease NOT caused directly by bacteria is.
- A) malaria
- B) tuberculosis
- C) pneumonia
- D) tetanus
Where is energy produced in a cell?
- A) Nucleus
- B) Lysosomes
- C) Mitochondria
- D) Nucleolus

