1. The scientist who introduced binomial 11.

Which of the following is practices is not

nomenclature in the classification of used in conserving water? (a) Afforestation (b)
organisms was (a) Charles Darwin (b) Carolus Damming (c) Deforestation (d) Reforestation.
Linnaeus (c) John Ray Pasteur. (d) Louis 12. The major role played by accessory
2. Which of the following statements is true pigments during photosynthesis is to? (a) Add
about arthropods (a) Prothorax bears only legs colour to plants but not to trap light energy (b)
(b) Mesothorax bears only legs (c)Metathorax Trap light energy that chlorophyll cannot
bears only wings (d) Prothorax bears only absorb (c) Transfer energy from chlorophyll to
wings. other pigments (d) Prevent chlorophyll from
3. What leyer of organisation is Spirogyra? (a) absorbing unnecessary light
Organ system (b) Organ (c) Cell (d) Tissue. 13. Which of the following processes are
4. The organelle involved in the transport of associated with photosynthesis? I. Glucose is
substances within a cell is? (a) Golgi body synthesized II. Oxygen is given off III. Carbon
(b) Endoplasmic reticulum (c) Ribosome (d) dioxide is evolved IV. Energy from sunlight is
Mitochondrion. absorbed. (a) I and III only (b) I, II, and IV
5. Which of the following organelles is found only (c) I, II, III and IV (d) II, III and IV only.
orily in plant cells? (a) Mitochondria (b) Study the diagram below and use it to answer
Lysosomes (c) Plastids (d) Ribosomes. questions 14 - 15
6. Active transport differs from diffusion in
that active transport (a) Is a very fast process
(b) Allows the movement of substances
against concentration gradient (c) Take place
in both light and dark reaction of
photosynthesis (d) Occurs in both plant animal
tissues.
7. Turgor pressure occurs in a cell when the?
(a) Volume of its cell sap increases (b) Cell 14. Which part of the flower produces the
loses water to its environment (c) Volume of structure labelled I? (a) Pollen (b) Carpel (c)
cell decreases (d) Cell is put in an isotonic Stigma (d) Anther.
solution. 15. The parts labelled I and II respectively are
8. Tropical rain forests can be conserved by called (a) Pollen tube and Style (b) Anther and
the following practices except? (a) filament (c) Stigma and style (d) Pollen grain
Agroforestry (b) Deforestation (c) Shifting and pollen tube.
cultivation (d) Crop rotation. 16. Which of the following structures is not
9. The order of primary succession by plants in essential in a wind pollinated flower?
a very dry habitat is? (a) Xerophytes → (a)Anther (b) Stigma (c) Petal (d) Ovary
Mesophytes ~ Shrub (b) Mesophytes → 17. Which of the following is not a skeletal
Xerophytes → Shrub (c)Mesophytes → Shrub tissue? (a) Chitin (b) Plasma (c) Bone (d)
-> Xerophytes (d) Xerophytes → Shrub → Cartilage
Mesophytes. 18. The maintenance of a constant internal
10. Air pollution can be reduced by the environment in an organism is known as (a)
following methods except? (a) Building tall Dialysis (b) Diuresis (c) Homeostasis (d)
factory chimneys (b) Passing waste gases Homothermis
through filters and absorbers (c) Using lead- 19. Which of the following organ is
free petrol in car (d) Recycling tins, cans and responsible for the production of insulin. (a)
bottles. Pancreas (b) Thyroid gland (c) Spleen (d)
Andrenal gland.
20. The cells and tissues of the nose, throat, Grasshopper would increase (b) Hawks would
chest, diaphragm and lung form the (a) increase (c) Grasshoppers decrease (d) Grasses
Digestive system (b) Respiratory system (c) available for grasshopper would increase.
Transport system (d) Circulatory system. 31. Which of the following behaviors is
21. Which of the following organs are used for correctly matched with the corresponding
gaseous exchange in a mature toad? (a) Gills, diseases?
lungs and eardrum (b) Lungs, mouth and
Behaviour Diseases
eardrum (c) Skin, lungs and mouth (d) Mouth,
skin and gills. A Smoking Liver, cirrhosis, lung
22. Which of the following is not a function of cigarette cancer, AIDS
a mammalian skin? (a) Reception of external
B Having Liver, cirrhosis,
stimuli (b) Gaseous exchange (c) Regulation
multiple sexual syphilis, AIDS
of body temperature (d) Excretion. partners
23. The amount of starch in a germinating seed
decreases because the starch is used to up (a) C Eating Dysentery, cholera,
For respiration and building up of cells (b) To uncooked meat food poisoning
build cellulose cell wall (c) For the production
D Living near Lung cancer, syphilis,
of enzymes (d) To develop meristematic dirty gutter river blindness
tissues.
32. The blood vessel which carries blood from
24. Which of the following features could be
the alimentary canal to the liver is the (a)
used to determine the growth of a seedling? (a)
Hepatic portal vein (b) Hepatic artery (c)
Number of flowers (b) Number of leaves (c)
Hepatic vein (d) mesenteric artery.
Length of flowers (d) Length of radicle.
25. Which of the following characteristics
The diagram below is an illustration of a
features is not associated with
structure used for gaseous exchange in
monocotyledonous plants? (a) Well
humans. Study it and answer questions 33 and
differentiated sepals and petals (b) Presence of
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narrow leaves (c) Floral parts are in mutual of
three (d) Presence of fibrous root system.
26. The food substance that would produce the
highest amount energy is (a) Glucose (b)
Amino acid (c) Fat (d) Protein.
27. Organisms that feed on dead, decaying
tissues of other organisms are known as (a)
Heterotrops (b) Parasites (c) Saprophytes (d)
Autotrophs.
28. A group of organisms belonging to
33. The parts I, II, III and IV respectively are
different species that coexist in the same
(a) Larynx, bronchus, bronchiole and trachea
habitat and interact is referred to as (a)
(b) larynx, trachea, bronchiole and bronchus
Population (b) Community (c) Biosphere (d)
(c) bronchiole, trachea, larynx and bronchus
Niche.
(d) bronchiole, trachea bronchus and larynx.
29. Which of the following organisms would
34. The part labelled III would be found in the
be the producer in a food chain? (a) Maize (b)
(a) Heart (b) Kidney (c) Lung (d) Sternum.
Goat (c) Man (d) Bacterium.
35. The branch of Biology that deals with the
30. The illustration below is a food chain.
principles of classification of organisms is
Grass grasshopper domestic fowl
known as (a) Biological index (b)
What would happen if the population of
nomenclature (c) taxonomy (d) ecology
domestic decreases? The population of (a)
36. Which of the following features is not an the group consitutute the highest number of
adaptation? (a) Breathing roots for entry air (b) humans (c) There are no of antibodies in thier
Flowers are raised above water to attract blood plasma (d) The antigens in thier blood
pollinators (c) Spongy tissues containing gases cells are easily destroyed
for boyancy (d) Hairy structures on the leaves 47. Which of the following diseases can be
to reduce water loss inherited? (a) Pneumonia (b) Whooping cough
37. The biological association that contributes (c) Sickle cell anemia (d) Malaria.
directly to succession in a community is (a) 48. The instrument used in measuring wind is
Competition (b) Predation (c) Parasitism (d) (a) a wind vane (b) a wind gauge (c) a
Commensialism barometer (d) an anemometer.
38. The conservation of natural resources is 49. Which of the following pairs of cells carry
enhanced by the following practices except (a) out the same function? (a) Check cell and red
Controlling farm activities (b) Protecting blood cell (b) Spermatozoon and ovum (c)
endangered species (c) Poaching in game Palisade cell and epidermal cell (d) Root tip
reserves (d) Establishing parks and gardens. cell and guard cell
39. The burning of farmlands ahould be 50. All of these are methods of asexual
discouraged because? (a) Destroys organic reproduction except (a) Binary fission (b)
components of the soil (b) Increases Conjugation (c) Budding (d) Intercourse.
population of wild animals (c) Increases (50 MARKS)
dormancy period of some seeds (d) destroys
some plant seeds. THEORY
40. The use of a lighter instead of matchsticks Answer all questions from this section.
is a way of conserving (a) Petroleum (b) 1(a). What is a cell?
Forest (c) water (d) wildlife. (b)i. State four Cell theory
41. The process that brings about the shrinking (b)ii. Describe briefly two levels of cell
of a spirogyra cell when placed in a strong organization in living organisms giving an
solution is ? (a) Osmosis (b) Autolysis (c) example of each type.
Plasmolysis (d) Diffusion (c). Make a diagram, 6cm to 8cm long of a
42. The region of a plant stem in which cells plant cell and label the essential organelles.
divide to increase its diameter is (a) Cambium
(b) Phloem (c) Xylem (d) Collenchyma. 2(a). What are autotrophs?
43. The total number of caudal vertebrae in (b). Name two unicellular organisms that are
animals X and Y is 4 and 27 respectively. The autotrophs
animals are likely to be. (a) Fish and human (c). Explain briefly what happens to the
(b) Toad and rat (c) Toad and fish (d) Humans glucose formed in a plant during
and rat photosynthesis.
44. Which of the following blood components
has the greatest affinity for oxygen and carbon 3. Relationships I, II, III, IV and V exist
(IV) oxide? (a) among some organisms in an ecosystem. Use
Lymphocyte (b) Thrombocyte (c) Erythrocyte them to answer the question
(d) Blood plasma I: Organism A grows on dead organism B.
45. Which of the followig traits in humans is II: Organism C feeds on the remnants of food
an example of physiological variation? (a) left by organism D without affecting organism
Skin colour (b) Fingerprint (c) Toungue D negatively or positively
rolling (d) height III: Organism E provides shelter for organism
46. Individuals belonging to the blood group O F while organism F transports organism E
are universal donors because ? (a) Antigens towards food
are absent in thier blood cells (b) Members of IV: Organism G kills organism B for food
V: Organism H feeds on organism J, causing
organism J a disease.
(a)i. Name the type of relationship in:
I,II,III,IV,V
ii. What is the biological term for each of
organisms B and G?
(b). Draw a typical pyramid of energy using
four feeding levels

4(a). What are sense organs?

(b). Name three sense organs that respond to
the stimulus of chemicals.
(c). List two types of cellular respiration

5 (a) Explain briefly the following ecological

terms:
(i) biosphere
(ii) habitat
(b) State two types of germination.
(b)ii. Explain them.
(c) State six methods of conserving soil.
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