LSAT 148 – Section 1 – Question 10

LSAT 148 - Section 1 - Question 10

December 2016

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT148 S1 Q10
+LR
Miscellaneous +Misc
Must be false +MBF
A
4%
158
B
3%
157
C
12%
157
D
74%
164
E
8%
162
135
149
162
 +Medium 142.771 +SubsectionEasier

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.

Summary
Creating a database of all the plant species in the scientific record is not easy. For centuries, botanists have been naming plants without realizing that some were already named. Moreover, by using DNA analysis, botanists have shown that varieties of plants long thought to belong to the same species actually belong to different species.

Notable Valid Inferences
DNA analysis could inform botanists whether a plant species has been named.

A
Most of the duplicates and omissions among plant names in the scientific record have yet to be cleared up.
Could be true. The stimulus does not give us any information about the total number of duplicates and omissions in the scientific record. It is possible that most of these errors have not yet been fixed.
B
An accurate database of all the plant species in the scientific record can serve as an aid to botanists in their work.
Could be true. There is no information in the stimulus that contradicts the idea that an accurate database would be helpful.
C
Duplicates and omissions in the scientific record also occur in fields other than botany.
Could be true. The information in the stimulus is restricted to botany. It is possible that the same or similar errors occur in other fields.
D
Botanists have no techniques for determining whether distinct plant species have been given distinct names.
Must be false. The stimulus tells us that DNA analysis has shown what plants belong to what species. Therefore, DNA analysis is a technique that botanists could use to determine whether a plant species has been given a distinct name.
E
A person who consults the scientific record looking under only one of a plant’s names may miss available information about that plant.
Could be true. The stimulus tells us that botanists have been naming plants without realizing that some plants have already been named. If this is true, then it is possible that some information about the same plant is just associated with a different name.

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