JUPEB 2015 BIOLOGY: SCI-J152 – Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following diseases could be exclusively associated with a river basin?

In mammals, the function of the sebaceous gland is to ________________

Osteoporosis is a disease of the ____________

The type of reproduction that is common to both Hydra and yeast is _____________

The difference between the largest and the smallest data values is the ______________

The function of ribosomes in cells is

Which statement correctly describes homologous chromosomes?

Which one of the following is a correct outline of the main events in photosynthesis?

Breathing movement in mammals is accompanied by regular movement of the diaphragm and the _______________

Organisms that require oxygen to grow are called ______________

Organisms that retain the blue/purple colour in their cell wall in gram staining technique are ______________

Which of the following nitrogenous base is found in RNA but not in DNA?

The study of groups of organisms is called ____________

Genetic rearrangement between non sister chromatids is known as _____________

One of the following is not a type of dormancy.

The terrestrial species of class Gastropoda prevent water loss by means of _______

The first forms of life on Earth were thought to be ____________

Which polysaccharide is usually found in the cell walls of fungi?

What adaptation do seed plants have in addition to the seed that is not found in seedless plants?

Prokaryotes stain as Gram-positive or Gram negative because of differences in the ____________

External fertilization occurs in ______________ type of environment?

What kind of ecosystem are exotic species especially threatening to?

Each neurone contains _______________

One of these statements is not true about Berry and Drupe.

Antibiotic discovery was done by the Scottish bacteriologist __________

The type of cell division which forms the basis of Mendel’s law of segregation is ______

Archaebacteria is simply ____________________

Leucosolenia belongs to class _____________

A pseudopodia that is threadlike, branched and interconnected is known as _______________

Photosynthetic microphylls are found in ______________

Polio myelitis is an infectious disease caused by ________________

Which of these is a trace element?

Which of these diseases cannot be prevented by immunization?

Hydra removes undigested food by _____________

Which of the following is INCORRECT? The prothallus of a fern __________

The science of taxonomy has two branches namely _____________ and ________________

To complement biotic analysis in measuring environmental factors the following are studied Except

The period between inoculation of bacteria in culture medium and the beginning of multiplication is known as _____________

Small proteinaceous infectious particles that do not contain nucleic acid genome that codes for their progeny are __________

Example of all-purpose media used in cultivation of bacteria by a bacteriologist is ___________

Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of the phylum Cnidaria?

Which of the following groups of plants are not considered as lower plants?

Non-living bodies in the cell includes one of these, _____________

Alternation of generation in plants involves which of the following?

Which of these is not a form of respiration in Amphibians?

The factor that least affects food shortage in the sub-saharan Africa is _____________

Which one of the following factors may not directly affect population density of organisms?

One of the major causes of laboratory-acquired infection is the inhalation of _________

The major cell of the specific immune system are _______________

The normal microbacter of the stomach include all of the following except: