JAMB Biology 1982 Past Questions

A population is defined as the collection of

Which of these combinations is common to plant and animal cells?

Which of these animals is NOT metamerically segmented?

Some of the major elements required by plants are

In human reproduction, the zygote formed as a result of fertilization gets attached to the wall of the uterus. The process is called

Kwashiorkor is caused by severe deficiency of

An hormoiothermic animal kept in a room where the temperature is lower than the body temperature may lose heat by four physical process. Which of the following processes is NOT connected with the body temperature regulation ?

Which of these food chains is NOT possible in a forest?

If a tall man (TT) maries a dwarf woman (gg) and they have four male children, the offspring will be

A married couple has 10 children and they are all girls. Which of the following is the CORRECT explanation?

If a 26 year old blind man married a young one-eyed woman and they had four children, how many of them would be blind like there father?

The glottis is the opening which leads to the

A tapeworm has no alimentary canal because

A grass hopper respires by the means of its

An onion bulb stores its food in the

Roots of plants are normally

The main function of the swim-bladder is for

Which of the following pairs are the products of sucrose hydrolysis?

Which of the vertebra has a projection called odontoid process?

Refrigeration, as a method of preservation, has ONE of the following characteristics:

Treatment of a poor soil with lime supplies

In the enzyme (amlyase) reactions of starch → sugar
starch is referred to as the

ONE of the major causes of haemophilia is lack of

In man, identical twins occur when

The parts of the mammalian eye that strongly bend light rays are the

Which of these statements is NOT true of insects?

when an operculate fish breathes it takes in water through the

Which of the following tissue are made up of dead cells?

External ears of mammals consist of

Any dry fruit which can break into several parts each containing one seed is a

Which of the following is NOT a function of mammalian blood?

The maize grain is regarded as a fruit and not a seed because

Which of these parts of the mammalian ears is directly concerned with the sense of balance?

When freshly tapped palm wine was kept overnight it was found to be more alcoholic. This effect must have been due to

If a farmer left his land uncultivated for five years before returning to it, he must be practising

A pyramid of numbers can be defined as

In man, spermatozoa are never found in the

Which of the following statements is TRUE of inhalation of air by man?

If the gall bladder of a man is removed by surgery, which of the following processes will be most seriously affected?

Flatworms and roundworms are said to be invertebrates because

Where is the energy produced in a cell?

In which part of a leguminous plant can you find bacteria like Azotobacter?

The three blood vessels that supply the mammalian alimentary canals are

In an epigeal germination, it is the

The mammalian pancreas is involved with the

When a person with blood belonging to group O has lost much blood due to an accident, he can be given blood from persons who have blood belonging to

The absence of stomata shows that a leaf may be

Which of the following is not associated with excretion in mammals

In the figure above the structured labelled X is the

Which of the parts are used to recognize the bone in the figure above?