Biology Past Questions And Answers

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3321

Which of the following conditions would result result in a decrease in the production of antidiuretic hormone?

  • A. Abnormally high blood sugar level
  • B. Drinking large quantities of water
  • C. Increase in osmotic pressure of blood
  • D. Period of strenuous exercise
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2013 OBJ
3322

During digestion of food, passage of chyme through the duodenum enables it to become a watery liquid called ________

  • A) Digested food
  • B) Chymatic product
  • C) Chyle
  • D) Soluble food
View Discussion (0)POST UTME UI
3323

If three 30cm lengths of glass tubing are tightly packed with clay, sand and loamy soils respectively and then stood in a beaker of water for one week the level of water will be

  • A) Lowest in the tube with clay
  • B) The same in all the tubes
  • C) Lowest in the tube with loamy soil
  • D) Lowest in the tube with sandy soil
View Discussion (0)POST UTME UI
3324

Members of the vitamin B complex are

  • A. water-soluble
  • B. fat-soluble
  • C. water insoluble
  • D. generally insoluble
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2000 OBJ
3325

An example of an endospermous seed is

  • A. maize gain
  • B. cashew nut
  • C. cotton seed
  • D. been seed
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2011
3326

A beaker of pond water containing few specimens of Euglena was placed in a dark room for two weeks. At the end of this period, the specimens of Euglena were still alive because they were

  • A. able to carry out holozoic nutrition.
  • B. able to carry out photosynthesis using carbon dioxide in the pond water
  • C. better adapted to life in darkness than to life in light
  • D. not overcrowded
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2009 OBJ
3327

The photosynthetic pigments include:

  • A) chlorophyll and carotenoids
  • B) chloroplasts and cytochromes
  • C) melanin and haemoglobin.
  • D) Carotenoids and haemoglobin
View Discussion (0)POST UTME OAU
3328

Over-secretion of thyroxin is likely to lead to

  • A. thinness in body
  • B. sluggishness
  • C. cretinism in infant
  • D. reduced metabolism
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1991 OBJ
3329

The process whereby microorganisms can convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogenous compound is known as

  • A. nitrogen cycle
  • B. nitrogen fixation
  • C. denitrification
  • D. putrefaction
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1993 OBJ
3330

A dry indehiscent, winged fruit formed from one carpel is known as a

  • A) Schizocarp
  • B) Caryopsis
  • C) Samara
  • D) nut
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