Post Utme Biology Past Questions and Answers

Question 271:

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first put forward by ____________

A. Aristotle
B. Darwin
C. Linnaeus
D. Boyle

Question 272:

Which of the following statements is correct about the chromosomes in the gametes?
At the end of the second meiotic division ____________

A. Cach gamete contains only paternal hereditary information
B. Chromosomes contain a random mixture of parental and maternal chromosomes
C. Chromosomes in the four gamete cells are diploid in numbe
D. Chromosomes contain only maternal hereditary information

Question 273:

Which of the following trails in humans can be affected by environmental factors?

A. Skin colou
B. Eye colou
C. Baldness
D. Tongue-rolling

Question 274:

The role of ATP include all the following activities except ____________

A. Provision of energy to do work in living things
B. Transmission of nerve impulse
C. Keeping the body warm in homeothermic animals
D. Producing water during aerobic respiration

Question 275:

Which of the following statement defines plasmolysis?

A. Shrinking of a plant cell in solution
B. Shrinking away of cytoplasm from an animal cell membrane
C. Shrinking away of cytoplasm from the plant cell wall
D. Shrinking of the vacuole and leaving the cytoplasm attached to the cell wall