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Biology Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1978 Biology Questions

Question 31:
a potometer was used to compare the rate of loss of the same volume of water from a plant under different environmental conditions as under a fan, at the sea shore, under the sun, in the airy laboratory and in cupboard. What time was likely to have been obtained in a cupboard?
  • A 15 secs
  • B 30secs
  • C 25secs
  • D 20secs
  • E 28secs
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Question 32:
The mammalian stomach can carry out a number of processes except
  • A Absorption of glucose
  • B Secretion of hydrochloric acid
  • C Secretion gastric juice
  • D Churning of food
  • E Production of trypsin
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Question 33:
A spirogyra cell placed was placed in solution X after 1 minute the cell has been plasmolysed, solution X was
  • A Tap water
  • B A very strong sugar solution
  • C A weak sugar solution
  • D A very weak salt solution
  • E Distilled water
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Question 34:
A farmer X working in a swamp did not eat any food nor drink any water. Which of this diseases can he not contact
  • A Cholera
  • B Bilharzia
  • C River blindness
  • D Malaria
  • E Sleeping sickness
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Question 35:
A carbohydrate molecule in the blood in the right ventricles of the heart is pumped into the cell of the toe of a man. Which of these structure is it unlikely to pass through en-route
  • A Pulmonary artery
  • B Lungs
  • C Heart
  • D Liver
  • E Aorta
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