IDEAL COMPREHENSIVE COLLEGE ENUGU

FIRST TERM EXAMINATION FOR 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION

SUBJECT: BIOLOGY

TIME: 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

SECTION A: OBJECTIVE

CLASS: SSS 1

1. Biology which is the study of life is from the Greek word (a) Bios (b) Bio (c) Zoe (d) Zoes

2. The process in living organisms that help them replace worn out cell tissues is called (a) irritability (b)
excretion (c) reproduction (d) growth

3. The Scientist regarded as the pioneer father of binomial nomenclature is (a) Robert Hooke (b) Carolus
Linmacus (c) Matthias Schleiden (d) Matthew Victorex

4. The one organism that could not fit into any of the kingdom is (a) protozoa (b) volvox (c) virus (d)
bacteria

5. The plant that possesses naked seed belong to the class (a) Gymnosperms (b) Angiosperms (c)
Cotyledons (d) Dicotyledons

6. The phyla of the animal kingdom without backbones and internal skeleton are called (a) boneless (b)
naked (c) vertebrate (d) invertebrates

7. The largest phylum in the animal kingdom is called the (a) Echinodermata (b) Arthropoda (c) Reptica
(d) Mammalia

8. The Scientist that worked on the bodies of plants to show different compartment of a cell is called
______ (a) Felix dujardin (b) Theodor Schwarm (c) Rudolf Von Virchow (d) Matthias Schleiden

9. A group of similar tissues performing specific functions is called ______ (a) organ (b) system (c) cell (d)
tissue

10. The part of the cell that is regarded as the power house of the cell, containing energy is the _______
(a) necleus (b) mitochondria (c) lysosarus (d) ribosomes

11. The intake of oxygen or nutrient from mother to foetus is an example of (a) osmosis (b) heamolysis
(c) diffusion (d) plasmolysis

12. The organic catalyte which speeds up the rate of chemical reaction is _____ (a) Accelerators (b)
Speeders (c) Enzymes (d) Pathogens
13. Photosynthesis is an example of which biological system? (a) catabolism (b) glycolysis (c) plasmolysis
(d) anabolism

14. The instrument used in the laboratory to observe tiny structure of living organisms that cannot be
seen with the naked eye is called ______ (a) microcsope (b) telescope (c) stotoscope (d) trioscope

15. Protoplasm is a major combination of b_______ (a) necleus and cytoplasm (b) vacoule and lysosyric
(c) ribosome and cytoplasm (d) necleus and chromosomes

16. The systematic process of making enquiry about living and non-living thing is called (a) observation
(b) inference (c) science (d) biology

17. Green plants are able to produce food by themselves through the aid of chlorophyl and sunlight.
Hence they are called _____ (a) heterotrophs (b) autotrophs (c) stereotype (d) mesotroph

18. The procedure that describes how an experiment would be formed is called (a) inference (b) method
(c) observation (d) classification

19. In the binomial nomenclature, the first name given to organism is the (a) generic name (b) superior
name (c) specific name (d) recessive name

20. The classification of plants by Carolus Linmacus was published in year (a) 1759 (b) 1758 (c) 1753 (d)
1752

21. The RNA present in virus, stands for (a) Robust nucleic acid (b) renatured nucleic acid (c) ribonucleic
acid (d) red matured acid

22. The following are examples of unicellular organism except (a) paramecium (b) amoeba (c)
chlanydomonas (d) spirogyra

23. Maize is an example of plants like with a tap root system. Hence, it is called a (a) tap root plant (b)
monocotyledonous plant (c) balsam plant (d) dicotyledonous plant

24. Robert Hooke carried out his experiment with the cork of a/an (a) mango (b) oak tree (c) beans (d)
bamboo tree

25. The following are examples of system in animal except (a) skeletal system (b) circulatory system (c)
vascular system (d) digestive system

26. Organism comprising of un-differentiated cells formed together to perform specific functions are
called (a) filament (b) massed cell (c) multicellular organisms (d) colony

27. The pigment responsible for photosynthesis in green plant is found in the (a) chloroplast (b) vacuole
(c) chromosomes (d) ribosomes

28. The process whereby red blood cell burst or become split as a result of too much water passing
through it is called (a) plasmolysis (b) heamolysis (c) flaccidity (d) turgidity
29. The kind of respiration that do not require the presence of oxygen is called (a) aerobic (b) birobic (c)
centralobic (d) anaerobic

30. The Scientist that discovered that cell is made up of living substance called protoplasm is (a)
Matthias Schleiden (b) Theodor Schwann (c) Felix dujardin (d) Robert Hooke

31. _______ involves the study of the existence features of plants and animals. (a) Ecology (b)
Morphology (c) Zoology (d) Botany

32. The use of naturally occurring bacteria to clear toxic chemicals or oil spill is called (a) Bioremediation
(b) Biofommatics (c) Biocleansing (d) Biopurification

33. The basic unit of classification of living thing is the _____ (a) kingdom (b) phylum (c) order (d) specie

34. The binomial nomenclature for mango is (a) mangolia litmus (b) magnificent oroma (c) mamgifera
Indica (d) mango magniferus

35. The biological protist that is typically known to share similarities of plants and animals is called (a)
Euglena (b) Trapenosome (c) Nostoc (d) Chlamy donomas

36. The main parasitic in man, tape worm belongs to the sub phylum (a) Annelida (b) Platyhelminthes (c)
Mollusca (d) Anthropda

37. The commonest example of a filamentous organism (a) spirogyra (b) eudorina (c) sponges (d) volvox

38. The cellular component that stores genetic trait in living organism is the (a) Golgi bodies (b)
Chromosome (c) Chloroplast (d) Lysosyme

39. A condition where plant looses water more than it absorb is termed _____ (a) turgidity (b) flaccidity
(c) plasmolysis (d) diffusion

40. Fermentation is an example of which biological system? (a) Birobic respiration (b) Centralobic
respiration (c) Anaerobic respiration (d) Aerobic respiration

41. The amoeba basically feed by (a) chewing (b) engulfing (c) tapping (d) sipping

42. The starting point for any scientific method is called _____ (a) hypothesis (b) observation (c)
inference (d) classification

43. The advent of biotechnology does so much with the use of _______ (a) thermoreceptors (b)
stethoscope (c) genetic engineering (d) Biofommatics

44. What was the limitation of Carolus Linmacus classification? (a) The similarity between apes and
humans was so striking (b) There was drastic evolution in the morphology of living organisms (c) smaller
animals and lower class plant were always going into extinction (d) A lot of one called organism could
not fit into the division properly
45. The Euglena moves from one spot to another with the use of _______ (a) eye spot (b) gullet (c)
flagellum (d) pellele

46. The commonest example of the schizophyta division is ______ (a) Nostoc (b) Bacteria (c) Bive-green
algae (c) Volvox

47. The energy released during respiration is in form of (a) TAP (b) ATD (c) ATP (d) DAC

48. The following are phylum in the kingdom protista except (a) protozoa (b) chrysophyta (c) pyrrophyta
(d) Annelida

49. The major difference between the fungi and plant is the composition of their ______ (a) cell
membrane (b) vacoule (c) cell wall (d) structure

50. The science that studies heredity and variation in living thing is called _____ (a) Anatomy (b)
Physiology (c) Zoology (d) Genetics

Section B Theory

Answer any four questions

1. Define the following terminologies:

a. Biology

b. Zoology

c. Botany

d. Morphology

e. Anatomy

2. List six characteristics of living things.

b. Mention two areas where the relevance of biology is observable.

3. List the different classes of phylum character and one example each of the classes.

4. Design a quality profile for the clarification of living organism from kingdom to specie using the
following organism:

I. Euglena

II. Maize

III. Man

5. Give a detailed overview of the contribution of Robert Hooke on cell.

I. Cell as a colony

II. Cell as a filament

III. Cell as a multicellular organism.

6. Explain the following terms:

I. Heamolysis

II. Diffusion

III. Aerobic respiration

IV. Flaccidity

V. Enzyme