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Jamb Syllabus for Biology 2024/2025 PDF

Download: Biology is one of the most popular
subjects among Jamb candidates who want to
study courses related to medicine, agriculture,
biotechnology, and other life sciences. If you are
one of them, you need to prepare well for the
Jamb Biology exam by studying the topics and
objectives outlined in the Jamb Biology syllabus.

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The Jamb Biology syllabus is an o"cial

document that contains the scope and content
of the Jamb Biology exam. It also provides a list
of recommended textbooks and general
instructions for candidates. The syllabus is
designed to help candidates achieve the
following objectives:

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Demonstrate su"cient knowledge of the

concepts of the diversity, interdependence
and unity of life;
Account for continuity of life through
reproduction, inheritance and evolution;
Apply biological principles and concepts to
everyday life, especially to matters a#ecting
living things, individual and societal well-
being;
Evaluate the e#ects of human activities and
technological advancements on the
environment and living organisms.

The syllabus covers 30 topics that are divided

into four sections: A. Living Cells and
Organization; B. Continuity of Life; C. Concept of
Living Things; D. Ecology and Environment. Each
topic has a list of specific objectives that
candidates are expected to achieve after
studying it.

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Jamb Syllabus for Biology

2024/2025
SECTION A: Variety of Organisms

1. Living organisms;
2. Evolution among the following;
3. Structural/functional and behavioural
adaptations of organisms:

SECTION B: Form and Functions

1. Internal structure of plants and animals

2. Nutrition
3. Transport
4. Respiration
5. Excretion
6. Support and movement
7. Reproduction
8. Growth
9. Co-ordination and control

SECTION C: Ecology

1. Factors a#ecting the distribution of

organisms
2. Symbiotic interactions of plants and animals
3. Natural Habitats
4. Local (Nigerian) Biomes
5. The Ecology of Populations
6. Soil
7. Humans and Environment

SECTION D: Heredity and

Variations

1. Variation In Population
2. Heredity

SECTION E: Evolution

Theories of evolution
Evidence of evolution

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Jamb Syllabus for Biology 2024

General Objectives
The aim of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) syllabus in Biology is to
prepare the candidates for the Board’s
examination. It is designed to test their
achievement of the course objectives, which are
to:

1. demonstrate su"cient knowledge of the

concepts of the diversity, interdependence,
and unity of life;
2. account for continuity of life through
reorganization, inheritance, and evolution;
3. apply biological principles and concepts to
everyday life, especially to matters a#ecting
living things, individual, society, the
environment, community health, and the
economy.

Detailed Syllabus
A: Variety of Organisms

(1) Living organisms:

a. Characteristics
b. Cell structure and functions of cell
components
c. Level of organization
i. Cell e.g. euglena and paramecium,
ii. Tissue e.g. epithelial tissues and
hydra
iii. Organ e.g. onion bulb
iv. Systems e.g. reproductive,
digestive, and excretory v.
Organisms e.g. Chlamydomonas.

Candidates should be able to:

i. di#erentiate between the characteristics of

living and non-living things.
ii. identify the structures of plant and animal
cells.
iii. analyse the functions of the components
of plant and animal cells.
iv. compare and contrast the structure of
plant and animal cells.
v. trace the levels of organization among
organisms in their logical sequence in
relation to the five levels of organization of
living organisms.

(2) Evolution among the following:

a. Monera (prokaryotes), e.g. bacteria
and blue-green algae.
b. Protista (protozoans and protophyta),
e.g. Amoeba, Euglena and Paramecium.
c. Fungi, e.g. mushroom and Rhizopus.
d. Plantae (plants)
i. Thallophyta (e.g. Spirogyra).
ii. Bryophyta (mosses and liverworts)
e.g. Brachmenium and Merchantia.
iii. Pteridophyta (ferns) e.g.
Dryopteris.
iv. Spermatophyta (Gymnospermae
and Angiospermae)
Gymnosperms e.g. Cycads and
conifers.
Angiosperms (monocots, e.g.
maize; dicots, e.g. water leaf)
e. Animalia (animals)
i. Invertebrates
coelenterate e.g. Hydra
Platyhelminthes flatworms e.g.
Taenia
Nematoda (roundworms)
Annelida e.g. earthworm
Arthropoda e.g. mosquito,
cockroach, housefly, bee,
butterfly
Mollusca e.g. snails
ii. Multicellular animals (vertebrates)
Pisces (cartilaginous and bony
fish)
Amphibia e.g. toads and frogs
Reptilia e.g. lizards, snakes, and
turtles
Aves (birds)
Mammalia (mammals)

Candidates should be able to:

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i. analyse external features and

characteristics of the listed organisms.
ii. apply the knowledge from (i) above to
demonstrate increase in structural
complexity.
iii. trace the stages in the life histories of the
listed organisms.
iv. apply the knowledge of the life histories
to demonstrate gradual transition from life in
water to life on land.
v. trace the evolution of the listed plants.

Candidates should be able to:

i. trace the advancement of the invertebrate

animals.
ii. determine the economic importance of
the insects studied.
iii. assess their values to the environment.
iv. trace the advancement of multi-cellular
animals.
v. determine their economic importance.

(3) Structural/functional and behavioural

adaptations of organisms:
a. adaptive colouration and its functions
b. Behavioural adaptations in social
animals
c. Structural adaptations in organisms.

Candidates should be able to:

i. describe how the various structures,

functions and behaviour adapt these
organisms to their environment, and way of
life.
ii. Categorize countershading in fish, toads,
snakes, and warning colouration in
mushrooms.
iii. Di#erentiate various castes in social
insects like termites and their functions in
their colony hive.
iv. Account for basking in lizards, territorial
behavour of other animals under
unfavourable conditions (hibernation and
aestivation).

i. account for adaptation in organisms with

respect to the following:
Obtaining food (beaks and legs of birds,
mouthparts of insects, especially
mosquito, butterfly, and moth.)
Protection and defence (stick insects,
praying mantis, and toad).
Securing mates (redhead male and
female Agama lizards, display of
feathers by birds).
Regulating body temperature (skin,
feathers, and hairs)
Conserving water (spines in plants and
scales in mammals).

B: Form and Functions

(1) Internal structure of plants and animals

a. Internal structure of a flowering plant
i. Root
ii. Stem
iii. Leaf
b. Internal structure of a mammal

Candidates should be able to:

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i. identify the transverse sections of these

organs.
ii. relate the structure of these organs to their
functions.
iii. identify supporting tissues in plants
(collenchyma) sclerenchyma, xylem and
phloem fibres)
iv. describe the distribution of supporting
tissues in roots, stem and leaf
v. examine the arrangement of the
mammalian internal organs.
vi. describe the appearance and position of
the digestive, reproductive and excretory
organs.

(2) Nutrition
a. Modes of nutrition
i. Autotrophic
ii. Heterotrophic
b. Types of Nutrition
c. Plant nutrition
i. Photosynthesis
ii. Chemosynthesis
iii. Mineral requirements (macro and
micro-nutrients)
d. Animal nutrition
i. Classes of food substances;
carbohydrates, proteins, fats and
oils, vitamins, mineral salts and
water
ii. Food tests (e.g. starch, reducing
sugar, protein, oil, fat etc.)
iii. The mammalian tooth (structures,
types and functions)
iv. Mammalian alimentary canal
v. Nutrition process (ingestion,
digestion, absorption, and
assimilation of digested food)

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Candidates should be able to:

i. compare autotrophic and heterotrophic

modes of nutrition.
ii. provide examples from both flowering and
non- flowering plants.
iii. compare the photosynthetic and
chemosynthetic modes of nutrition;
iv. di#erentiate the following examples of
heterotrophic feeding:
holozoic (sheep and man)
Parasitic (roundworm, tapeworm and
Loranthus)
saprophytic (Rhizopus and mushroom)
carnivorous plants (sundew and
bladderwort)
determine their nutritional value.
v. di#erentiate the light and dark reactions, of
photosynthesis.
vi. determine the necessity of light, carbon
(IV) oxide and chlorophyll in photosynthesis.
vii. detect the presence of starch in a leaf as
an evidence of photosynthesis.
viii. identify macro-and micro-elements
required by plants.
ix. recognise the deficiency symptoms of
nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium.
x. indicate the sources of the various classes
of food;
xi. determine the nutritional value of food
xii. relate the importance and deficiency (e.g.
scurvy, rickets, kwashiorkor etc.) of each
class of food;
xiii. determine the importance of a balanced
diet.
xiv. detect the presence of a food type from
the result of a given experiment.
xv. describe the structure of a typical
mammalian tooth
xvi. di#erentiate the types of mammalian
tooth and relate their structures to their
functions.
xvii. compare the dental formulae of man,
sheep and dog.
xviii. relate the structure of the various
components of the alimentary canal and its
accessory organs (liver, pancreas and gall
bladder) to their functions.
xix. identify the general characteristics of
digestive enzymes
xx. associate enzymes with digestion of
carbohydrates, proteins and fats and
xxi. determine the end products of these
classes of food.

(3) Transport
a. Need for transportation
b. Materials for transportation (Excretory
products, gases, manufactured food,
digested food, nutrient, water and
hormones)
c. Channels for transportation
i. Mammalian circulatory system
(heart, arteries, vein and capillaries)
ii Plant vascular system (phloem and
xylem)
d. Media and processes of mechanism
for transportation.

Candidates should be able to:

i. determine the relationship between

increase in size and complexity; and the
need for the development of a transport
system in plants and animals.
ii. determine the sources of materials and the
forms in which they are transported.
iii. describe the general circulatory system
iv. compare specific functions of the hepatic
portal vein, the pulmonary vein and artery,
aorta, the renal artery and vein.
v. identify the organs of the plant vascular
system.
vi. understand the specific functions of the
phloem and xylem.
vii. identify media of transportation (e.g.