Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Scientists have recently shown that heaps of intact DNA from the extinct wooly mammoth are retrievable from the
animals' fur. A great deal of that fur is readily available in natural history museums. Such amounts of DNA make it possible to piece together the entire mammoth genome. Hence, we can expect to see mammoth clones in the not too distant future.
A) Argument; conclusion: A great deal of that fur ... natural history museums.
B) Nonargument.
C) Argument; conclusion: Scientists have recently shown ... animals' fur.
D) Argument; conclusion: We can expect to see ... in the not too distant future.
E) Argument; conclusion: Such amounts of DNA ... the entire mammoth genome.
D
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