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 may be on the verge of creating life in a test tube. Recently, scientists have used computers to
synthesize a highly complex loop of DNA. When this loop was inserted into an empty bacterial cell, the cell began to self-replicate. And self-replication is an essential feature of life.
A) Argument; conclusion: When this loop was inserted ... began to self-replicate.
B) Argument; conclusion: Recently, scientists have used computers ... loop of DNA.
C) Nonargument.
D) Argument; conclusion: Scientists may be on the verge ... life in a test tube.
E) Argument; conclusion: And self-replication is an essential feature of life.
D
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