PT133.S2.Q18

PrepTest 133 - Section 2 - Question 18

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Summary

The author concludes that an evolutionary ancestor of bacteria that had only a few of a flagellum’s parts wouldn’t gain any survival advantage from those parts.

Why?

Because the flagellum requires many parts in order to help a bacterium swim.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that in order for a flagellum’s parts to provide a survival advantage to the bacteria ancestor, those parts must help the bacteria ancestor swim. (This overlooks the possibility that the parts may have provided surivival advantages unrelated to swimming.)

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18.

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a

Any of bacteria's ████████████ █████████ ████ ███ ████ █ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ██ █ ████████████ ████████ ██ ███████ █████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ █████ ██████

b

For parts now ████████████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ████ █████ ██ ██████████ █████████ ████ █████ ████ ███ ██ ████ ██ █████

c

All parts of ███ █████████ ███ █████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ██████████

d

No evolutionary ancestor ██ ████████ ███ ████ █ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████████

e

Any of bacteria's ████████████ █████████ ████ ██████ █ █████████ ████ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ █████

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