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. In some ways biology is the most demanding of all sciences. This is partly because living systems are so complex

and partly because biology is a multidisciplinary science that requires a knowledge of chemistry, physics, and mathematics. And of all the sciences, biology is the most connected to the humanities and social sciences. Neil A. Campbell and Jane B. Reece, Biology, 6th edition

A) Argument; conclusion: Living systems are so complex.

B) Argument; conclusion: Biology is a multidisciplinary science ... mathematics.

C) Nonargument.

D) Argument; conclusion: In some ways biology ... of all sciences.

E) Argument; conclusion: Of all the sciences ... humanities and social sciences.


D

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