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Plants make their own food from Carbon (IV) oxide and water i.e. autotrophism, while animals depend on complete readymade food from plants and other animals i.e. heterotrophism
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- State the importance of each of the following in living organisms (a) Nutrition (b) Excretion.
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State the importance of each of the following in living organisms:
a) Nutrition
b) Excretion.
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How does nutrition as a characteristics of living organisms differ in plants and animals?
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- State one use for each of the following apparatus in the study of living organisms.(Solved)
State one use for each of the following apparatus in the study of living organisms.
a) Pooter
b) Pitfall trap.
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State the name given to study of:
a) The cell;
b) Micro-organisms
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- Motor vehicles move, use energy and produce carbon dioxide and water. Similar characteristics occurs in living organisms yet motor vehicles are not classified as living Explain.(Solved)
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Date posted: April 27, 2017. Answers (1)
- Explain the importance of the following in fish(Solved)
Explain the importance of the following in fish;
a)Myotomes on either side of the body
b) Scales overlapping backwards
c) Paired fins
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
- Name the type of muscle in human being found in the (a) Artrium (b) Oviduct(Solved)
Name the type of muscle in human being found in the;
a) Artrium
b) Oviduct
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Name the hormone responsible for apical Dominance.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Explain why Lamarck's theory of evolution is not accepted by Biologists today.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Name the causative organism of the following diseases
i) Malaria
ii) Bilharzia
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Name the excretory products eliminated by the following animals,
i) Tilapia
ii) Chicken
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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A small boy remarked that his dog looks larger on cold days than on hot days. Give biological explanation for this.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Give two destinations of food translocated from the leaves of plants.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Insects’ blood is said to lack a respiratory pigment. Explain
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Write down two functions of exoskeleton in the phylum Arthropoda.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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State two characteristics of a meristematic cell.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Name a growth hormone that has inhibitory effect in plants growth.
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Explain why menstruation does not take place after fertilization in human beings.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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Name the hormone that stimulate the maturation of the graafian follicles to release a mature ovum in female reproductive cycle.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)
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State two distinguishing characteristics of the kingdom protoctista.
Date posted: January 21, 2017. Answers (1)