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. Because the properties of life emerge from complex organization, scientists seeking to understand biological
processes confront a dilemma. One horn of the dilemma is that we cannot fully explain a higher level of order without breaking it down into its parts, but this inevitably kills it. The other horn is the futility of trying to analyze something as complex as an organism or a cell without taking it apart. Neil A. Campbell and Jane B. Reece, Biology, 6th edition
A) Argument; conclusion: The other horn is ... without taking it apart.
B) Argument; conclusion: The properties of life emerge from complex organization.
C) Nonargument.
D) Argument; conclusion: One horn of the dilemma ... inevitably kills it.
E) Argument; conclusion: Scientists seeking to understand ... confront a dilemma.
E
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