JAMB Biology Past Questions & Answers - Page 79

391.

Which of the following statement about the similarities in plant and animal transport is correct?

A.

Materials and hormones are transported in fluid form

B.

The transport medium is made up of only tissues

C.

Their materials are transported in the same vessels

D.

Diffusion is not required

Correct answer is A

One of the similarities in plant and animal transport is that materials and hormones are transported in fluid form in both.

392.

The type of nutrition in which two organisms of different species live together and derive nutrients from each other is

A.

symbiotic nutrition

B.

saprophytic nutrition

C.

holozoic nutrition

D.

holophytic nutrition

Correct answer is A

Symbiotic nutrition involves two organisms of different species living together and deriving nutrients from each other.

393.

Which of the following pairs of organisms are photosynthetic?

A.

Amoeba and paramecium

B.

Euglena and chlamydomonas

C.

Volvox and Rhizopus

D.

Nostoc and plasmodium

Correct answer is B

Euglena and chlamydomonas are photosynthetic because they possess features of plants which enable them to produce their food.

394.

The type of nutrition shown by spirogyra is

A.

Symbiosis

B.

Holophytic

C.

Holozoic

D.

Chemosynthetic

Correct answer is B

Spirogyra undergoes holophytic nutrition

395.

Animals are said to gregarious when

A.

they survive adverse conditions of cold weather

B.

they transmit information from one individual to another

C.

they are of the same species moving together in a group

D.

they give an alarm to alert others to show the normal protective behaviour of the group when danger threatens

Correct answer is C

Gregarious animals are the same species of animal moving together in group.