Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Biology outline · B: Form and Functions
Content
Plant movements: tropic, tactic, nastic and sleep movements; responses to light, water, gravity and touch; regions of growth in roots and shoots; role of auxins in tropism; supporting tissues, including collenchyma, sclerenchyma, xylem and phloem fibres.
Objective
Determine the need for support and movement in organisms; identify supporting tissues in plants and describe their distribution in roots, stems and leaves; relate plant responses to light, water, gravity and touch; identify growth regions in roots and shoots and explain the role of auxins in tropism.
Content
Supporting tissues in animals, including chitin, cartilage and bone; exoskeleton and endoskeleton; structure and general layout of the mammalian skeleton; types of joints; supportive, locomotive, protective and respiratory functions of the skeleton.
Objective
Relate the location of chitin, cartilage and bone to their supporting functions; relate mammalian skeleton structure to support, locomotion and respiration; differentiate types of joints using examples; explain the protective, supportive, locomotive and respiratory roles of the skeleton in animal wellbeing.
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