PrepTest 131, Section 4, Question 7

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Reading the passage

One ant is simple; the colony acts as a complex, organized system. That's why the author compares the colony to an intelligence.

A
Correct
Just before the comparison, B describes thousands of ants retrieving food or repelling an intruder, apparently reasoning and coordinating as a unit (Passage B, paragraph 2). The colony's collective behavior is the point.
B
An illustration of parallel behavior doesn't establish what inspired the shift in computing. B gives no such history.
C
The author compares an ant colony to a computer, not computer components to living things.
D
This sentence describes the ants' behavior. It doesn't report how accurately a computer simulation reproduces that behavior.
E
We aren't told that the ants' rules have been adapted for computer simulations. The comparison explains what their collective behavior is like.

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