Reptiles are air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skelet

In terms of its logical features, the argument above most resembles which one of the following?


(A) Green plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen back into the air; so it follows that grass takes in carbon dioxide and releases oxygen into the air.

(B) Some red butterflies are poisonous to birds that prey on them; so this particular red butterfly is poisonous to birds that prey on it.

(C) Knowledge about the empirical world can be gained from books; so Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own must provide knowledge about the empirical world.

(D) Dierdre has seen every film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; so Dierdre must have seen Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, a film directed by Fassbinder.

(E) Skiers run a high risk of bone fracture; so it is likely that Lindsey, who has been an avid skier for many years, has suffered a broken bone at some point.




The argument has one of the typical GMAT logical reasonings i.e.
A is a main set and B is a subset of A.
Now set A has a feature/characteristic C (applies to all elements in set A), so B, which is a subset of set A, also possesses the feature/characteristic C.

Reptiles : set A
Alligators: set B
Features of Set A: C

Option A follows the exact same line of reasoning. Hence, A is correct Ans option.