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05 Feb 2025, 18:45
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Creating a database of all the plant species in the scientific record has proved to be no easy task. For centuries, botanists have been collecting and naming plants without realizing that many were in fact already named. And by using DNA analysis, botanists have shown that varieties of plants long thought to belong to the same species actually belong to different species.
Of the following claims, which one can most justifiably be rejected on the basis of the statements above?
(A) Most of the duplicates and omissions among plant names in the scientific record have yet to be cleared up.
(B) An accurate database of all the plant species in the scientific record can serve as an aid to botanists in their work.
(C) Duplicates and omissions in the scientific record also occur in fields other than botany.
(D) Botanists have no techniques for determining whether distinct plant species have been given distinct names.
(E) A person who consults the scientific record looking under only one of a plant’s names may miss available information about that plant.
Of the following claims, which one can most justifiably be rejected on the basis of the statements above?
(A) Most of the duplicates and omissions among plant names in the scientific record have yet to be cleared up.
(B) An accurate database of all the plant species in the scientific record can serve as an aid to botanists in their work.
(C) Duplicates and omissions in the scientific record also occur in fields other than botany.
(D) Botanists have no techniques for determining whether distinct plant species have been given distinct names.
(E) A person who consults the scientific record looking under only one of a plant’s names may miss available information about that plant.
06 Feb 2025, 10:20
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Option D is the correct answer since the scientists not being able to recognize plants which are already named is because of a lack of a database but not so much a lack of technique.
06 Feb 2025, 10:56
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(A) Most of the duplicates and omissions among plant names in the scientific record have yet to be cleared up.
May be or may be not. we don't know
(B) An accurate database of all the plant species in the scientific record can serve as an aid to botanists in their work.
May be or may be not. We don't know - they may be doing this for official purpose or as a govt mandate or in fact to help in their work.
(C) Duplicates and omissions in the scientific record also occur in fields other than botany.
We are not concerned about anything outside botany based on the passage
(D) Botanists have no techniques for determining whether distinct plant species have been given distinct names.
This cannot be true because botanists realised they named same plants different and some different plants same.
(E) A person who consults the scientific record looking under only one of a plant’s names may miss available information about that plant.
This is a trap. We don't know about missing information under the plant profiles. They might be complete, even if there are records with different names
May be or may be not. we don't know
(B) An accurate database of all the plant species in the scientific record can serve as an aid to botanists in their work.
May be or may be not. We don't know - they may be doing this for official purpose or as a govt mandate or in fact to help in their work.
(C) Duplicates and omissions in the scientific record also occur in fields other than botany.
We are not concerned about anything outside botany based on the passage
(D) Botanists have no techniques for determining whether distinct plant species have been given distinct names.
This cannot be true because botanists realised they named same plants different and some different plants same.
(E) A person who consults the scientific record looking under only one of a plant’s names may miss available information about that plant.
This is a trap. We don't know about missing information under the plant profiles. They might be complete, even if there are records with different names
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