WAEC (WASSCE) Biology · Plant and animal nutrition

Modes of nutrition: WAEC Biology Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Modes of nutrition

Our summary: Making food by photosynthesis versus getting it from other organisms in different ways.

  • Autotrophic: photosynthesis
  • Heterotrophic: holozoic, parasitic, symbiotic and saprophytic (Named examples should be used to illustrate different modes of nutrition.)

Syllabus content © The West African Examinations Council (WASSCE (harmonised West African syllabus)).

WAEC (WASSCE) Biology questions on Modes of nutrition

  1. WAEC 2023Organisms that feed on dead, decaying tissues of other organisms are known as
  2. WAEC 2023The capturing and digestion of insects by a pitcher plant is a special form of nutrition that is
  3. WAEC 2023The type of nutrition in which organisms take solid organic materials into their body is
  4. WAEC 2021Autotrophic nutrition is a process whereby an organism obtains food
  5. WAEC 2017The organism that can carry out both autotropic and heterotrophic modes of nutritions is
  6. WAEC 2017Which of the following groups of organisms do not have members that can be called autotrophs?
  7. WAEC 2014A characteristic feature of plant parasites is the
  8. WAEC 2010An example of a saprophytic relationship is a / an

Years with Modes of nutrition questions in DeeepSolve's question bank

From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.

  • 2023
  • 2021
  • 2017
  • 2014
  • 2010