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. The beating of your heart results from physiological mechanisms fundamentally no different from those that
underlie heart function in fishes, frogs, and birds. Likewise, the molecular events that produce an electrical nerve impulse in your brain are fundamentally the same as those that produce an impulse in the nerve of a squid or rat. For these reasons, animal physiology has made innumerable contributions to our understanding of human physiology. David Randall et al., Animal Physiology
A) Argument; conclusion: Likewise, the molecular events ... nerve of a squid or rat.
B) Nonargument.
C) Argument; conclusion: The beating of your heart ... frogs, and birds.
D) Argument; conclusion: The beating of your heart ... physiological mechanisms.
E) Argument; conclusion: Animal physiology ... human physiology.
E
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Symbols list You may use the list below to copy-and-paste symbols into your answer as needed. ?; ?; •; ~; ?; ?; ?; ?
Stem cells are
A) Monopotent. B) Pluripotent. C) Omnipotent. D) Bipotent.
Prima facie duties are always found in situations of moral significance
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Ashley detests Isabel, and Isabel detests Francesca. Therefore, it necessarily follows that Ashley detests Francesca
A) Inductive, weak. B) Inductive, strong. C) Deductive, invalid. D) Inductive, uncogent. E) Deductive, valid.