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SS 3 BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) 0% 36 Thank You for attempting our SSCE/NECO/GCE Biology Past Examination Questions. SSCE/NECO/GCE (BIOLOGY) BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS SSCE (App) These are Biology Past Questions. Questions will be picked at random from the question bank.You can use the NEXT button to move to the next question, use the PREV button to move to the previous question, the CLEAR button to clear any answer of your choice and you have the FINISH button to end the exam if you choose to.Any question not answered before the end of the exam time, will be marked as wrong and the exam will end by itself. so try to attempt all questions on time.Goodluck!School Portal Nigeria 1 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following life processes are common to both plants and animals except growth reproduction photosynthesis respiration 2 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS In the binomial system of naming organism, the second name is called the common name generic name specific name scientific name 3 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements is correct about organs? unicellular animals have few organs they perform a certain overall function they are composed of specialized cells they are not found in plants 4 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The sudden change in a gene structure or chromosome number in an organism likely to cause known as mutation mitosis migration meiosis 5 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following instruments is used to measure wind speed? thermometer barometer hygrometer anemometer 6 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms is not considered as a parasitic plant? cassytha rhizopus mistletoe dodder 7 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Evidence for evolution include the following except comparative anatomy geographical distribution of organisms mutation of genes fossil records 8 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The mode of nutrition common to green plants is saprophytic holozoic autorophic heterotrophic 9 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The accepted concepts for theory of Natural selection does not include survival of the fittest use and disuse of body parts tendency for organisms to over produces struggle for existence 10 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements best describe pollination? The transfer of pollen grain from stigmas to stamens anther to the ovary anther to stigmas the anther of a flower to the stigma of another flower of a different species 11 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The order of prmary succession by plants in a very dry habitat is mesophytes – shrub – xerophytes xerophytes – mesophyte – shrub xerophytes – shrub – mesophytes mesophytes – xerophytes – shrub 12 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Population growth rate may be defined as the net rate of nationality and mortality in the habitat ever a period mortality rate per unit area over a period number of times an organism occurs within a given period number of a particular species per unit area 13 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms is well adapted for fluid feeding? grasshopper mosquito cockroach ants 14 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A seed of a flower plant can best be described as radicle and plumule the embryo and endosperm the developed ovule developed ovary 15 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Territoriality is a phenomenon among plants of different species animals and plants lower organisms male animals with a group of females 16 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The axial skeleton is composed of the skull and vertebral column radius and ulna atlas and axis limbs and girdies 17 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms are the producers in an aquatic habitat? benthons nektons phytoplanktons zooplanktons 18 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The colour that is associated with a positive iodine test is red brown yellow blue-black 19 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The ear pinna is strengthened by turgor pressure bone cartilage blood pressure 20 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms has kidney as their excretory organ? fishes, amphibians, annelids, insect fishes, protozoans, amphibians, man fishes, reptiles, birds, tape worms fishes, amphibians, birds, man 21 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following inherited conditions usually shows incomplete dominance? sickle cell anaemia baldness haemophilia tongue rolling ability 22 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following pH values is the best for the action of the emzymes – renin and pepsin in the stomach? pH9 pH8 pH7 pH2 23 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms is a primary consumer grass dog fungal sheep 24 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The first step in carrying out ecological studies in a terrestrial habitat as mapping the area measuring abiotic factors. quadrat sampling collective of organisms 25 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following enzymes is not one of the main classes of enzymes proteases sucrose amylases lipases 26 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The effects of environmental degradation caused by human activities can be controlled by the following measures except do nothing converting mining pits into fish ponds ( educating people reclaiming the land 27 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The transfer of ripe pollen grains from another to the stigma of the same flower is termed fertilization self-pollination conjugation reproduction 28 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The importance of the concentration of chloroplast in the palisade layer of the leaf is for maximum exposure to oxygen water light carbon dioxide 29 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following organisms feeds both autotrophically and heterotrophically? mucor hydra paramecium euglena 30 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following substances has the highest amount of energy in joules per unit weight? proteins fats vitamins carbohydrate 31 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The order of evolutionary trend in plants is Thallophyta, Bryphyta, Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Bryophyte, Thallophyta, Pteridophyta, Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Spermatophyta and Thallophyta Spermatophyta, pteridophyta, Bryophyta and Thallophyta 32 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A group of closely related organism capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring are known as members of family class species kingdom 33 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Two organelles directly involved in mitotic cell division are nucleus and centriole centriole and goligi apparatus nucleus and mitochondrion ribosome and nucleus 34 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of these diseases cannot be spread by an insect? malaria measles cholera trypanosomiasis 35 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A man suffering from obesity must avoid meals containing margarine and butter carrots and oranges rice and beans beef and fish 36 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the organisms does not show colour adaptation to its environment? fish chameleon toad earthworm 37 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following substances is not a conservable natural resource? air soil minerals water 38 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The persistent presence of glucose in a person’s urine indicates malfunctioning of the bladder stomach pancreas heart 39 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS The following practice can contribute towards the conservation of natural resources except contour ploughing afforestation deforestation establishment of Game reserves 40 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following processes does not contribute towards growth? cell plasmolysis cell enlargement cell division cell differentiation 41 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Plant hormones includes the following except cytokinin auxin insulin gibberellin 42 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following diseases is not hereditary colour blindness Albinism scabies haemophilia 43 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS A termite with a relatively large head and powerful Jaws is likely to be reproductive queen soldier king 44 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following physical factor is likely to affect the distribution of plants in a pond? humidity light temperature wind 45 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following processes is not an example of a reflex action? beating of the heart blinking of the eye sneezing reading 46 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS What does the chemical composition of the genetic material of all living organisms consist of? follide stimulating hormone adenosine triphosphate adenosine diphosphate deoxyribonucleic acid 47 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements about ecosystems is false? all the energy entering the ecosystem is placed on to decomposers energy transfer from one trophic level to the other is not 100% efficient the primary producers provide energy for herbivores and carnvores ecosystems must start with the capture of energy by autotrophs 48 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS An organisms which maintains a constant temperature irrespective of environment temperature fluctuation is a fish an amphibian an insect a mammal 49 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Which of the following statements about the development of the foetus is not correct? the foetus depends on the mother’s blood for its food and oxygen the circulatory system of foetus is directly connected to the maternal blood vessels the foetus is surrounded by a water sac food and oxygen are carried across the placenta to the embryo’s blood. 50 / 50 Category: BIOLOGY PAST QUESTIONS Finger prints are useful in crime detection because no two people have the same finger print finger prints are easy to make thieves may leave their prints at the scene of a crime the police have sophisticated fingerprint machines NameEmail Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Practice also: SS 3 AGRIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 DATA PROCESSING PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMPUTER STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 COMMERCE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) SS 3 CIVIC EDUCATION PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO)
