Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT13 S2 Q11 Explanation

Harris: Currently, hybrid animals are

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Stimulus

Harris: Currently, hybrid animals are not protected by international endangered‐species regulations. But new techniques in genetic research suggest that the red wolf, long thought to be an independent species, is a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf. Hence, since the should be changed to admit the protection of hybrids.

Vogel: Yet hybrids do not need protection. Since a breeding population that arises through hybridization descends from independent species, if any such population were to die out, it could easily be revived from which the hybrid is descended.

What this question is testing

Agree/Disagree

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
11.

Which one of the following is a point at issue between Harris

Answer choices

  1. Trap0% picked this

    whether the red wolf descends from the gray wolf and

  2. Trap4% picked this

    whether there are some species that are currently considered endangered that are not in fact

  3. Trap4% picked this

    whether the packs of red wolves that currently exist are in danger

  4. Correct91% picked this

    whether there are some hybrids that ought to be protected by

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

    Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  5. Trap1% picked this

    whether new techniques in genetic research should be used to determine which groups of animals constitute species

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