GMATPill wrote:
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2. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following, if true, would be most likely to influence ethologists’ opinions about whether a particular gene in a species is a behavioralgene?
THis is an inference question -- GMATPill Framework #8 Inference
The ETHOLOGISTS' opinion is ....where?
Well, it's not going to be in the beginning -- we have what researchers think in the beginning. But what is crucial to this question is not going to be here. We want to jump to the point in the passage where we talk about the ethologists' opinion and what they really careabout.
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But ethologists—specialists in animal behavior—are interested in evolution, so they define the term narrowly. TheyINSIST that mutations in a behavioral gene must alter a specific normal behavior and not merely make the organism ill,...
So there you have it. We got the point where the ethologists INSIST -- this is a strong word. It indicates what they care about. And they care whether
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