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Properties and functions of the living cell: WAEC Biology Past Questions and Answers
What the WAEC syllabus covers in Properties and functions of the living cell
Our summary: How single cells feed, get rid of wastes and move.
- Nutrition: autotrophic (photosynthesis) (Nutrition in Euglena, Chlamydomonas and Spirogyra should be mentioned.)
- Nutrition: heterotrophic (holozoic) (Nutrition in Amoeba and Paramecium should be mentioned.)
- Excretion: excretion in single-celled aquatic organisms; diffusion by body surface and by contractile vacuole
- Excretion: waste products of metabolism (Reference should be made to carbon dioxide, water and ammonia as examples of waste products.)
- Movement: organelles for movement: cilia and flagella; cyclosis
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WAEC (WASSCE) Biology questions on Properties and functions of the living cell
- WAEC 2018The streaming movement of cytoplasm within the Paramecium is known as
- WAEC 2015The following organisms have structures for movement except
- WAEC 2014The excretory product in protozoans is
- WAEC 2011If Amoeba is placed in a salt solution. the contractile vacuoles would
- WAEC 2010Excretion in Paramecium sp. is by diffusion because
- WAEC 2010The organelle which eliminates water from the body of a protozoan is the
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