Support and movement: JAMB Biology Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Support and movement

Our summary: Plant movements and supporting tissues, skeletons in animals, joints, and what skeletons do.

• Tropic, tactic, nastic and sleep movements in plants
• Supporting tissues in animals
• Types and functions of the skeleton ((i) Exoskeleton; (ii) Endoskeleton; (iii) Functions of the skeleton in animals.)

Objectives

• determine the need for support and movement in organisms
• identify supporting tissues in plants (collenchyma, sclerenchyma, xylem and phloem fibres)
• describe the distribution of supporting tissues in root, stem and leaf.
• relate the response of plants to the stimuli of light, water, gravity and touch
• identify the regions of growth in roots and shoots and the roles of auxins in tropism.
• relate the location of chitin, cartilage and bone to their supporting function.
• relate the structure and the general layout of the mammalian skeleton to their supportive, locomotive and respiratory function.
• differentiate types of joints using appropriate examples.
• apply the protective, supportive, locomotive and respiratory functions of the skeleton to the wellbeing of the animal.

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