Biology Past Questions And Answers
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
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
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
Members of the vitamin B complex are
- A. water-soluble
- B. fat-soluble
- C. water insoluble
- D. generally insoluble
An example of an endospermous seed is
- A. maize gain
- B. cashew nut
- C. cotton seed
- D. been seed
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
The photosynthetic pigments include:
- A) chlorophyll and carotenoids
- B) chloroplasts and cytochromes
- C) melanin and haemoglobin.
- D) Carotenoids and haemoglobin
Over-secretion of thyroxin is likely to lead to
- A. thinness in body
- B. sluggishness
- C. cretinism in infant
- D. reduced metabolism
The process whereby microorganisms can convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogenous compound is known as
- A. nitrogen cycle
- B. nitrogen fixation
- C. denitrification
- D. putrefaction
A dry indehiscent, winged fruit formed from one carpel is known as a
- A) Schizocarp
- B) Caryopsis
- C) Samara
- D) nut

