PT142.S2.Q14

PrepTest 142 - Section 2 - Question 14

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Support Geologists recently discovered marks that closely resemble worm tracks in a piece of sandstone. █████ █████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ █████ ███████ ████ ███ ████████ █████ ██████ ██ █████████████ ██████ █████ ██████████ ███ █████ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████████ █████████ ██████ ████ ██ ██████

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis

The author hypothesizes that the marks are traces of geological processes rather than worms. The main premise for this is that the tracks were made long before the first known traces of multicellular animal life.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that the fact that the earliest known traces of multicellular animal life were found from much later means that such life could not have existed long before, with evidence of it just not surviving. In other words, the author assumes that we should not revise our date for the emergence of multicellular life based on these apparent tracks. The author also assumes that there was no other factor that could have produced these apparent tracks: the only two options are worms and geological processes.

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14.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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