PENNY INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE,

COKER COMPOUND, ORILE- IGANMU, LAGOS.

SECOND TERM EXAMINATION 2023/ 2024 SESSION
SUBJECT: BIOLOGY CLASS: SS2
SECTION A: OBJECTIVES
INSTRUCTION: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

1. A change in the environment of an organism is termed __________________ (a) sensitivity

(b) impulse (c) response (d) stimulus.
2. Organisms that interbreed to produce fertile offspring belong to the same (a) class (b) family
(c) species (d) order.
3. Respiration is an essential life process providing the living cell is (a) oxygen (b) sugar
(c) carbon dioxide.
4. The organelle involved in the transport of substances within a cell is (a) golgi body
(b) endoplasmic reticulum (c) ribosome (d) mitochondrion.
5. The dominant stage in the life cycle of a fern is the (a) antheridium (b) gametophyte
(c) prothallus (d) saprophyte.
6. Yeast is added to the dough during the preparation of bread because it produces (a) ethanol
(b) heat (c) carbondioxide (D) carbohydrate.
7. Growth include the following except (a) differentiation (b)enlargement (c) mitosis (d) meiosis.
8. Which of the following processes is a form of sexual reproduction? (a) budding by yeast cell
(b) conjugation in spirogyra (c)binary fission in amoeba (d) rhizome production in ginger.
9. The persistent presence of glucose in a person’s urine indicates manifested of the (a) heart
(b) bladder (c) pancreas (d) stomach.
10. Protection of the body cell of mammals against ultra-violet rays of the sun in brought by
(a) keratin (b) melanin (c) sebum (d) scales.
11. In which of following organisms is parental care manifested? (a) tilapia (b) toad
(c) cockroach (d) snail.
12. The site for production of ATP in a cells is (a) ribosome (b) cytoplasm (c) golgi body
(d) mitochondrion.
13. In testing for starch in a leaf, the leaf is boiled in alcohol to (a)kill the cell (b)soften the leaf
(c) enable chemicals penetrate the leaf (d) decolourise the leaf.
14. The mode of nutrition common to green plants is ______________________(a) autotrophic
(b) heterotrophic (c) holozoic (d) saprophytic.
15. Micronutrients essential for the synthesis of chlorophyII include ____ (a) iron and potassium
(b) iron and magnesium (c) magnesium and calcium (d) magnesium and potassium.
16. Enzymes can be inactivated by certain chemical substances in the body called ________
(a) catalysts (b) inhibitors (c) substrates (d) activators.
17. Which of the following protozoans feeds parasitically? (a) paramecium (b) chlamydomonas
(c) plasmodium (d) euglena.
18. Which of the following features of the tadpole indicates that the animal is herbivorous?
Possession of ______ (a) operculum (b) muscular tail (c) long coiled intestine (d) internal gills.
19. The term community is defined as __________________________(a) the different groups
of plants and in the same area and interacting with each other (b) the consumers and
producers living in a habitat (c) living organism interacting with physical factors of an
environment (d) animals which mutually derive benefit from their association.
20. Wind speed is measured with ___________ (a)benthos (b) phytoplanktons (c) zooplanktons
(d) nektons.
21. The amount of passed from one trophic level to the next decreases because (a) many
organisms are present at the first level (b) many organisms occur at the higher trophic level
(c) more energy is conserved at lower trophic level (d) parts of organisms remain unutilized at
each trophic level.
22. Which of the following infections would not respond to an antibiotic treatment ?(a) gonorrhea
(B) measles (c) diarrhea (D) tuberculosis.
23. The vector of sleeping sickness disease parassite is the (a) cockroach (b) mosquito (c)
black fly (d) tse-tes fly.
24. Which of the following bacteria lives in the root noodles of leguminous plants? (A)
azotobaacter (b) nitrobacter (c) rhizobium (d) nitrosonomas.
25. An animal which possesses scales, nares and backbone is likely to be a _____________
(a) toad (b) no energy (c) an equal amount of energy to aerobic respiration (d)less energy than
aerobic respiration
26. Anaerobic respiration results in the production of _____________________ (a) more energy
than aerobic respiration (b) no energy (c) an equal amount of energy to aerobic respiration
(d) less energy than aerobic respiration.
27. Plant cells differ from animal cells in their possession of ___________________________
(a) large vacuoles (b) ribosomes (c) cytoplasm (d) nucleus .
28. At what level of organization is paramecium? (a) tissue (b) organelle (c) cellular (d) system.
29. Bacteria differ from eukaryotic classification was developed by __________________ (a)
Robert Hooke (b) Carl Linnaeus (c) Jean Lamarck (d) Charles Darwin.
30. A cell is found to have a distinct cell wall but lacks mitochondria and a nuclear membrane. It
is most likely to be the cell of a (a) plant (b) animal (c) bacteria (d) protozoan.
31. The following farming practices are used to control soil erosion EXCEPT for (a) mulching (b)
terracing (c) contour ploughing (d) spreading artificial fertilizers.
32. Excessive deforestation has the following effects on the environment, EXCEPT for (a)
increased soil erosion (b) flash flooding of river and streams during the rainy season (c)
decrease in atmospheric carbondioxide (d) lower animal rainfall.
33. An animal disease caused by the virus is (a) tobacco mosaic (b) tuberculosis (c) chicken
pox (d) gonorrhea.
34. An organism at the unicellular level of organization is _________ (a) cell (b) tissue (c)
system (d) organ.
35. A Hydra is an example of __________________ level of organization (a) cell (b) tissue (c)
system (d) organ.
36. An example of a colony is (a) spirogyra (b) volvox (c) hydra (d) amoeba.
37. An example of filament is (a) Volvox (b) spirogyra (c) hydra (d) amoeba.
38. Which of the following is not a constituent of DNA (a) guanine (b) cytosine (c) uracil (d)
adenine.
39. Living things have the following characteristics except (a) limited life span (b) ability to
respond to stimuli (c) ability to get rid of waste metabolic materials (d) unlimited size.
40. All living things carry out (a) parasitism (b) mutualism (c) transpiration (d) excretion.
41. Plants and animals have the following things in common except (a) nucleus (b) cytoplasm
(c) cell membrane (d) large vacuole.
42. Mucor reproduces asexually by (a) binary fission (b) budding (c) fragmentation (d) spore
formation.
43.Bacteria reproduce by (a) conjugation (b) spore formation (c) binary fission (d) buddiing.
44. The vector of sleeping sickness parasites ios a ________________ (a) tse-tse fly (b)
housefly (c) black fly (d) sand fly.
45. In spirogyra, the mode of sexual reproduction is called _______________ (a) zygote
formation (b) gametogenesis (c) zygospore formation (d) conjugation.
46. Mucor is an example of (a) saprophyte (b) parasite (c) symbiont (d) commensal.
47. Which of these animals shiows radial symmetry? (a) frog (b) amoeba (c) hydra (d)
cockroach.
48. Which of these animals has no symmetry? (a) frog (b) snake (c) earthworm (d) amoeba.
49. Animals without backbone are called ________________ (a) chordates (b) vertebrates (c)
amphibians (d) invertebrates.
50. A person who believes rumours without checking them lacks the scientific attitude known as
________________ (a) curiousity (b) humility (c) rationality (d) critical mindedness

ESSAY
Attempt any three (3) questions.
1(a) Explain briefly the following terms; (i) conservation (ii) endangered species.
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1(b). (i) Name three (3) parts of plants in which food can be stored.
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(ii) Give one (1) example in each case._____________ _______________ ________________
1(c). What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?
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2(a). In a tabular form, give four (4) differences between Euglena and Amoeba.
S/N EUGLENA AMOEBA
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2(b). Describe conjugation in Mucor/ Rhizopus.

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2(c). What is a perennating organ?

3(a). In a tabular form, give five (5) differences between Aerobic and Anaerobic respiration.
S/N AEROBIC ANAEROBIC
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3(b). Give three (3) similarities between aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration.
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3(c). Describe the features of a typical vertebra.
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4(a) Explain briefly the three (3) types of skeleton in animals.

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4(b). State one function each of:
(i) Parenchyma (ii) Collenchyma (iii) Sclerenchyma (iv) Xylem (v) Phloem
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5(a). In a tabular form, give seven (7) differences between mitosis and meiosis
S/N MITOSIS MEIOSIS

5(b). What is vegetative propagation?

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5(c). Describe two (2) methods of artificial vegetative propagation.
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PRACTIALS
(a)A big dog found freshly dead in a school farm was left untouched for five days.
(i) State three biological activities that would happen to the dead dog.
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(ii) State three effects the biological activities stated in 3a(i) would have on the environment.
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(iii) Name three products that would be released into the environment.
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(iv) Suggest the best way in which the environment could be saved from the effect of the
biological activities on the dead dog.
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(v) Give one reason for the answer in 3(a) iv.
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(b) Name two:
(i) Microdecomposers
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(ii) Macrodecomposers in an ecosystem
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(c) State two characteristics of decomposers
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(d) State three ways by which decomposers are important in the ecosystem.
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