Biology Past Questions | West African Examinations Council (WAEC)

Question 41

Which of the following traits in humans is not a morphological variation?

Options

A) Height

B) Shape of head

C) Colour of skin

D) Ability to roll the tongue

The correct answer is D.

Question 42

The blood group in humans referred to as a universal recipient is

Options

A) O

B) A

C) B

D) AB

The correct answer is D.

Question 43

If a heterozygous red flowered plant, (Rr) was self-fertilized, the offspring would be expected to be

Options

A) all red flowered plants

B) all white flowered plants

C) red flowered, white flowered plants

D) white flowered red flowered plants

The correct answer is C.

Question 44

The contrasting pair of genes affecting a trait and located at the same position on homologous chromosomes is referred to as

Options

A) chromatids

B) mutants

C) alleles

D) chromatin

The correct answer is C.

Question 45

The haploid number of chromosomes in humans is

Options

A) 48

B) 46

C) 24

D) 23

The correct answer is D.

Question 46

A pure breeding white cat (homozygous dominant) mates with a pure breeding black cat (recessive), what would be the fur colour of F1 generation

Options

A) Homozygous white

B) Homozygous black

C) Heterozygous white

D) Heterozygous black

The correct answer is C.

Question 47

Courtship behaviour in animals may include all of the following except

Options

A) howling of a dog

B) dancing of the worker bee

C) croaking of a toad

D) basking in the sun by a lizard

The correct answer is D.

Question 48

Honey-Bee workers carry out the following functions except

Options

A) laying eggs

B) building nests

C) cleaning the nest

D) gathering food

The correct answer is A.

Question 49

The long necks and legs of the present day giraffes were some of the basis of

Options

A) Darwins' theory of evolution

B) Mendel's theory of inheritance

C) Lamarck's theory of evolution

D) De Vries theory of evolution

The correct answer is C.

Question 50

A change in the environment of an organism is termed

Options

A) sensitivity

B) impulse

C) response

D) stimulus

The correct answer is D.


Question 51

Organisms that interbreed to produce fertile offspring belong to the same

Options

A) class

B) family

C) species

D) order

The correct answer is C.

Question 52

The transfer of ripe pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of the same flower is termed

Options

A) fertilization

B) self-pollination

C) reproduction

D) conjugation

The correct answer is B.

Question 53

The hereditary material in a living organism is located inside the

Options

A) protein wall

B) cytoplasm

C) nucleus

D) lysosome

The correct answer is C.

Question 54

Respiration is an essential life process providing the living cells with

Options

A) oxygen

B) sugars

C) energy

D) carbon dioxide

The correct answer is C.

Question 55

The organelle involved in the transport of substances within a cell is

Options

A) Golgi body

B) endoplasmic reticulum

C) ribosome

D) mitochondrion

The correct answer is A.

Question 56

Which of the following processes takes place when a plant cell is put in a hypotonic solution?

Options

A) Water moves into the cell and the cell bursts

B) Water leaves the cell and the cell becomes flabby

C) Water moves into the cell and the cell becomes turgid

D) The cell becomes plasmolysed

The correct answer is C.

Question 57

The dominant stage in the life cycle of a fern is the

Options

A) antheridium

B) gametophyte

C) prothallus

D) sporophyte

The correct answer is D.

Explanation:

First, all plants undergo an alternation of generations, between a haploid gametophyte stage and a diploid sporophyte stage. In the most primitive plants, like mosses, the gametophyte is dominant (i.e. it's big and green). In higher plants like ferns and fern allies, the sporophyte stage is dominant.

Question 58

Yeast is added to the dough during the preparation of bread because it produces

Options

A) ethanol

B) heat

C) carbon dioxide

D) carbohydrate

The correct answer is C.

Question 59

Growth includes the following processes except

Options

A) differentiation

B) enlargement

C) mitosis

D) meiosis

The correct answer is D.

Question 60

Which of the following processes is a form of sexual reproduction?

Options

A) Budding by yeast cells

B) Conjugation in Spirogyra

C) Binary fission in Amoeba

D) Rhizome production by ginger

The correct answer is B.

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