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29 Jan 2025, 10:51
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The most (i) ________ puzzle was in determining how to deliver the antisense strand to the right place at the right moment, after the virus had penetrated the cell but before it had replicated and escaped to infect other cells. To accomplish this, the synthetic strand had to be potent enough to be effective and to resist rapid (ii) _________ inside the body, allowing it time to accomplish its task.
Blank (i)
A. recalcitrant
B. pedestrian
C. monolithic
Blank (ii)
D. desiccation
E. degradation
F. compunction
Blank (i)
A. recalcitrant
B. pedestrian
C. monolithic
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D. desiccation
E. degradation
F. compunction
05 Feb 2025, 09:51
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The puzzle sounds quite complicated—delivering an antisense strand to the right place at just the right moment. Only recalcitrant (stubborn) is appropriate to describe a complicated puzzle; pedestrian (commonplace, uninspired) conflicts with the proof, and monolithic (inflexible, unchanging) is not indicated by any piece of evidence. The strand must be strong enough to resist rapid (something), “allowing it time to accomplish its task.” The strand needs time to work, so it needs to resist something like not being able to work. Dessication (drying out) is probably bad, but there is no indication in the sentence that drying out would prevent the strand from working, and compunction (uneasiness due to guilt) doesn’t apply to strands. However, degradation (deterioration, breakdown) is something the strand would have to resist in order to work on the virus.
Answer: A,E
The puzzle sounds quite complicated—delivering an antisense strand to the right place at just the right moment. Only recalcitrant (stubborn) is appropriate to describe a complicated puzzle; pedestrian (commonplace, uninspired) conflicts with the proof, and monolithic (inflexible, unchanging) is not indicated by any piece of evidence. The strand must be strong enough to resist rapid (something), “allowing it time to accomplish its task.” The strand needs time to work, so it needs to resist something like not being able to work. Dessication (drying out) is probably bad, but there is no indication in the sentence that drying out would prevent the strand from working, and compunction (uneasiness due to guilt) doesn’t apply to strands. However, degradation (deterioration, breakdown) is something the strand would have to resist in order to work on the virus.
Answer: A,E
