The likely Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) CBT Agricultural Science Questions and Answers. Make good use of the objectives JAMB Agriculture Expo Exposed to pass your Agric science well in JAMB for all batches.
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Past Agricultural Science Questions for JAMB
Below are JAMB Agricultural Science Sample Questions and Answers: Ensures that you read the instructions carefully before attempting the questions. You are expected to take only one option.
1. What is the primary purpose of processing facilities in agriculture?
- A. To process raw agricultural materials into value-added products
- B. To store and preserve harvested crops
- C. To package and label agricultural products
- D. To provide shelter and housing for livestock
Answer: A (To process raw agricultural materials into value-added products)
2. Which of the following is NOT a component of soil?
- A. Minerals
- B. Water
- C. rubber
- D. Organic matter
Answer: C (rubber)
3. What is a potential disadvantage of mass media for farmers?
- A. Increased cost of agricultural inputs
- B. Insufficient coverage of farming practices
- C. Limited access to information
- D. Lack of credibility in agricultural news
Answer: C (Limited access to information)
4. What is the relationship between demand and supply in agriculture?
- A. Demand and supply in agriculture are unrelated
- B. Demand and supply in agriculture are interdependent
- C. Supply in agriculture is determined solely by demand
- D. Demand in agriculture is independent of supply
Answer: B (Demand and supply in agriculture are interdependent)
5. What is the purpose of using a scale of preference in agricultural decision-making?
- A. To evaluate the environmental impact of farming practices
- B. To determine the most profitable crops to cultivate
- C. To allocate resources effectively among different activities
- D. To prioritize agricultural tasks based on urgency
Answer: C (To allocate resources effectively among different activities)
6. What is the primary purpose of storage facilities in agriculture?
- A. Housing agricultural machinery and equipment
- B. Storing and preserving harvested crops
- C. Providing shelter for farm animals
- D. Offering a workspace for farm laborers
Answer: B (Storing and preserving harvested crops)
7. Which of the following is an important aspect of livestock management in agriculture?
- A. Crop rotation techniques
- B. Fertilizer application rates
- C. Animal health and welfare
- D. Irrigation scheduling
Answer: C (Animal health and welfare)
8. What is the process of introducing foreign genetic material into an organism called?
- A. Translation
- B. Transformation
- C. Translocation
- D. Transcription
Answer: B (Transformation)
9. The foot and mouth disease of cattle is caused by a
- A. virus
- B. fungus
- C. nematode
- D. bacterium
Answer: A (virus)
10. Air sacs are present in
- A. rabbit
- B. goat
- C. poultry
- D. cattle
Answer: D (cattle)
11.A major symptom of onion/twister is
- A. motting of leaves
- B. appearance of dark brown spots on leaves
- C. rottening of buds
- D. rottening of roots
Answer: B (appearance of dark brown spots on leaves)
12.The tree species commonly planted for pulpwood is
- A. albizia
- B. gmelina
- C. tactona
- D. cassia
Answer: B (gmelina)
13.The correct sequence of the components of a goat’s stomach is
- A. rum en – reti culum – abomasum -omasum
- B. rum en – reti culum – omasum – abomasum
- C. reti culum – rum en – omasum – abomasum
- D. reti culum – omasum – abomasum – rum en
Answer: B ( rum en – reti culum – omasum – abomasum)
14. Andropogon gayanus is commonly called
- A. guinea grass
- B. spear grass
- C. gamba grass
- D. elephant grass
Answer: C (gamba grass)
15. Which of the following will not be affected by an excessive amount of water content in feeds?
- A. improving quality of such feeds
- B. decrease in nutritive value
- C. encouraging growth of molds
- D. formation of toxic products
Answer: A (improving quality of such feeds)
16. The water-snail is important in the life cycle of
- A. coccidium
- B. tapeworm
- C. roundworm
- D. liver fluke
Answer: D (liver fluke)
17. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good pasture?
- A. provision of balance nutrients
- B. high stem to leaf ratio
- C. high quality of grass
- D. ability to withstand trampling
Answer: B (high stem to leaf ratio)
18. Which of the following livestock endoparasite is a hermaphmdite?
- A. trypanosome
- B. roundworm
- C. liverfluke
- D. tapeworm
Answer: D (tapeworm)
19.Gestation period is defined as the time
- A. of release of ovum from the ovary
- B. of fusion of the sperm and the egg
- C. of the birth of the young animal
- D. between conception and parturition
Answer: D (between conception and parturition)
20.An accessory sex gland in bull is
- A. thyroid gland
- B. prostrate gland
- C. pancreatic gland
- D. pituitary gland
Answer: B (prostrate gland)
21. Which of the following feedstuff does not contain phosphorus?
- A. limestone
- B. fish meal
- C. blood meal
- D. oyster shell
Answer: D ( oyster shell)
22. Which of the following group of crops can be attacked by smut diseases?
- A. sugarcane, maize and banana
- B. guinea corn, sugarcane and rubber
- C. maize, guinea corn and yam
- D. rice, maize and guinea corn
Answer: D (rice, maize and guinea corn)
23. One of the peculiarities of the intestine tract of a fowl is the possession of
- A. oesophageal groove
- B. cloaca
- C. large intestine
- D. stomach
Answer: B (cloaca)
24. New-born animals should be fed with colostrum because it
- A. provides them permanent immunity against diseases
- B. contains antibodies protecting them against diseases
- C. is easily digested
- D. is the first milk produced before birth
Answer: B (contains antibodies protecting them against diseases)
25. Gummosis is caused by a
- A. fungus
- B. nematoda
- C. virus
- D. bacterium
Answer: A ( fungus)
26. Weed plants which grow on other plants without deriving nutrients from them are called
- A. epiphytes
- B. saprophytes
- C. decomposers
- D. sedge
Answer: A (epiphytes)
27.Plant breeders aim at obtaining the following except
- A. adaptation to pollination
- B. tolerance to climate extremes
- C. uniformity in the time of maturity
- D. resistance of pest
Answer: A (adaptation to pollination)
28. Government laws and reforms are aimed at
- A. discouraging investment in agriculture
- B. increasing agriculture production
- C. controlling farm profits
- D. encouraging importation of agriculture pmduce
Answer: B (increasing agriculture production)
29. The main aim of wildlife management is to
- A. provide lots of cheap protein
- B. reduce the population of trypanosome parasites.
- C. generate foreign exchange through exportation of meat
- D. prevent extinction of species
Answer: D (prevent extinction of species)
30. The alternate heating and cooling of rocks will result in
- A. sublimation
- B. solidification
- C. fragmentation
- D. molten magma
Answer: C (fragmentation)
Hot Topics for JAMB Agric Science
The following Subjects will not fail to appear:
- Importance of Agriculture
- Agricultural Ecology
- Genetics
- Farm Inputs
- History of Agricultural Development in West Africa
SECTION B: Agronomy
- Rocks and Soil formation.
- Soil Water and Soil Conservation
- Soil Fertility
- Land Preparation and Soil Tillage
- Plant Forms and functions
- Growth, Development and Reproduction
- Plant Propagation Methods
- Cropping Systems, Planting Patterns and Plant Densities
- Crop Husbandry
- Pasture and Forage Crops
- Floriculture
- Weeds
- Crop Diseases
- Crop pests
- Forest management (Silviculture)
- Crop improvement
SECTION C: Animal Productioni.
- Reproduction in farm animals
- Animal nutrition
- Livestock management
- Animal Health
- Fisheries and Wildlife
- Animal Improvement
SECTION D: Agriculture Economics and Extension
- Basic Economic Principles.
- Characteristic Features of Agricultural Production
- Labour Management
- Farm Management
- Marketing of Agricultural Produce
- Importance of Marketing.
- Marketing channels.
- Agricultural Extension
SECTION E: Agricultural Technology
- Farm surveying and farmstead planning.
- Simple farm tools
- Mechanization and sources of farm power
- Processing and storage
- Introduction to biotechnology
- Application of ICT in agriculture
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- Review Your Answers Thoroughly before submission.
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