PrepTest 145, Section 1, Question 27
The French biologist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829) outlined(453 more words not shown)
Suppose a scholar believes that(54 more words not shown)
- Aa copy of(16 more words not shown)
- Ba letter in(12 more words not shown)
- Can allegation by(12 more words not shown)
- Dan account dating(23 more words not shown)
- Evocabulary in the(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Steele's evidence is a pattern within present genetic material that he interprets as a signature of past alteration. The scholar therefore needs a feature within the surviving play that points to later copying or editing—perhaps characteristic words from the later period.
What we’re looking for
We are matching the kind of evidence. A confession or an original manuscript might be powerful evidence, but it would work differently from a surviving pattern that indirectly reveals the past.
Working the answers
- A
An independently dated original gives us a comparison with the unaltered text. Steele does not offer an original, unaltered genetic record for direct comparison; he relies on a signature within the existing genes.
- B
The copyist's admission is direct testimony about what happened. It does not match an inference from the present material's internal pattern.
- C
A contemporary's allegation is an external claim about the alteration. The analogous evidence would be a feature of the surviving text itself, not another person's accusation.
- D
A contemporary quotation gives us a different earlier version to compare with the surviving one. That resembles a record of the old material, rather than a distinctive pattern within the new material.
- ECorrect
The later-era vocabulary corresponds to the mutation pattern. It is found within the surviving text and points to an alteration after the original period, just as Steele interprets a pattern within genes as evidence of past transfers. Both use an internal signature as circumstantial evidence of an earlier event.
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