Q14

[agersh144]

Can someone please explain why A is correct and not E? The (mostly since 1950) in parenthesis really throws me off I don't get the chronology of this theory of life in line 32, please explain.

[tommywallach]

Hey Agersh,

The protoplasm debate was said to be "raging" at the time of the "newly formulated enzyme theory of life". We have no reason to believe the debate had only recently started, given that it was raging (which usually means it's not just starting out, but has been going on for a while).

Hope that helps!

-t

[lhermary]

Can one of the geeks explain to me how we are supposed to approach this question? It took me forever to locate each answer in the passage and as a result I spent longer than I should have on this question. Notating each of these answers during the original reading seems a bit far fetched as well.

Thanks.

[WaltGrace1983]

Can one of the geeks explain to me how we are supposed to approach this question? It took me forever to locate each answer in the passage and as a result I spent longer than I should have on this question. Notating each of these answers during the original reading seems a bit far fetched as well.

Thanks.

I'd also be interested in this!



What I did is first found the part about "enzyme theory of life" in line 32. Then, I scanned the answers and was "meh" about many of them because they were all bogged down with details.

What do we know about how the passage is organized chronologically? We know that it starts off with talking about these two scientific disciplines in the late 1800s and then talks about how these two disciplines developed in the 20th century.

(B) (C) seems far-fetched so I left them. I know that the enzyme theory of life was very prevalent during the biochemist's day but I don't know WHEN the discovery of cell architecture or chromosome mapping was really happening.

(D) Did we ever find out when these two disciplines were synthesized? Did I miss it?

(E), like (B) and (C), looks to be a bit over-inferred. We know that both of the things (the debate and the theory) coincided with each other but we don't know when the debate had started.

(A) is the only one that we could pretty much prove with a decent understanding of the passage map. Where does it talk about "molecular biology?" Oh yea! The passage was saying that biochemistry essentially became "molecular biology." Look at the passage...aha 1950s! We know that the theory of life was happening in the late 1800s. This one is right.

I am going to try and remember this for next time (I am very early in my RC prep). Passage map! Passage map! Passage map!

[maryadkins]

Thanks, Walt...yes, a passage map is really helpful for this question, you're right that that's the great takeaway from this question. Thanks for chiming in.