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- carly.applebaum
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Q17
where is the answer to this in the passage? i eliminated A, B, and E, but i got hung up on C and D. can someone please explain why D is correct and why C is incorrect? thank you!
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- giladedelman
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Re: Q17
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The support for (D) comes in lines 37-40: " The case of the E. coli is especially noteworthy for its suggestion that inheritance of acquired characteristics may have helped to speed up evolution."
(A) is out because it's not the speed at which photosynthesis occurs, it's the speed at which it's acquired.
(B) is out because the passage doesn't get into the relationship between acquired characteristics and natural selection.
(C) gets mentioned in the first example about bacteria and cell walls, but the author never says that this is what's important about inheritance of acquired traits.
(E) doesn't come up in the passage.
The support for (D) comes in lines 37-40: " The case of the E. coli is especially noteworthy for its suggestion that inheritance of acquired characteristics may have helped to speed up evolution."
(A) is out because it's not the speed at which photosynthesis occurs, it's the speed at which it's acquired.
(B) is out because the passage doesn't get into the relationship between acquired characteristics and natural selection.
(C) gets mentioned in the first example about bacteria and cell walls, but the author never says that this is what's important about inheritance of acquired traits.
(E) doesn't come up in the passage.
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