Biology student: Microsatellites are repeated patterns of two, three, or four nucleotides within a DNA sequence that are unique to a particular lineage. Therefore, after breeding one hundred generations of fruit flies, we will be able to trace any particular fruit fly to its ancestor using the presence of certain microsatellites within its DNA.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the student’s argument?

Having been named for the Hellenic nymph who birthed to the river god Asopus, the satellite named Thebe, in the inner ring of sixty-seven moons that orbit Jupiter, was first observed in 1979.

To George Steiner, Europe was his home long after his family had been forced to emigrate to the U.S., and he returned to the continent as an adult to lecture at several major universities.

The twentieth-century physicist Paul Dirac made a significant contribution to his field with the Dirac equation, a unification of all physics since Einstein as well as a glimpse of a series of discoveries that would come to revolutionize science.

Most of the Greek coinage discovered in modern Afghanistan dates from the time of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, minted either by the rulers of Alexander the Great’s successor state or the Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian civilizations that followed.

Surpassing One World Trade Center or even the Tokyo Skytree in height, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper intended to enable the Downtown Dubai development, the U.A.E.’s urban improvement initiative, to create a hyper-modern metropolis is now eight years old and took more than 22 million man-hours over five years to finish.

An office building secured by voice-recognition technology, which restricts access to the building to those individuals whose voices are known by the system, does not merely recognize the words an individual speaks but the way he or she speaks them, analyzing tone and pitch to distinguish one speaker from every other. Even the most adept vocal mimics cannot reproduce all the qualities analyzed by the technology.

Which of the following can be logically concluded from the passage above?

In order to continue to manufacture its product during local shortages, Company M purchased the necessary raw materials at an increased price. As a result, the cost of that product to Company M’s customers, primarily direct-to-consumer businesses, also increased, leading to a sharp decline in final sales of that product.

Which of the following conclusions about Company M’s negatively impacted business consumers is best supported by the passage?

Politician: Implementing a tax on soda may not reduce soda consumption. In addition to irritating the vast majority of constituents who drink soda at least occasionally, it may inspire people who believe the tax is an overreach to defy the government’s public health initiative by buying more soda than ever. And there is no reason to expect that people who already waste money on empty calories will be deterred from wasting slightly more. The two sections in boldface play which of the following roles in the politician’s argument?

Though looking less distinctive than many of their highly sought-after purebred counterparts, mixed-breed dogs, born from a pair of different dog breeds—they usually display various physical characteristics from each parent—they are often healthier than purebreds and thus increasingly popular.

The Securities Exchange Commission has issued a press release indicating that the global recession, an event most economists think to be spurred by banks in offering bad loans, will have concluded by year’s end, with most economic sectors witnessing substantial growth.

Alan Moore, in his graphic novel narratives, deliberately infusing them with his intellectual interests, used his incisive mind to revolutionize what were once considered “mere comic books.”

Even though a few of the manuscripts found recently in southern Germany would seem to corroborate popular accounts of early-medieval migrations, the abundance of ambiguous sources seem more likely at the moment that they will prolong controversy over the patterns of migration rather than resolve them.

He was less successful after the publication of his magnum opus compared to his more famous contemporaries, writer Gene Wolfe nevertheless cultivated a devoted following of enthusiasts, and his work remains among the most passionately discussed of any science fiction author of his generation.

Similar to other modernist architects, the building designs of Richard Neutra derived from the pursuit of functionality drawing out the period’s revolutionary materials cast iron, plate glass, and reinforced concrete and almost incidentally transformed from experimentation into a style of its own.

The accomplishments of the intrepid climber Junko Tabei range from becoming the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and heading the Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan, an organization that works to preserve mountain ecology.

Unlike Foucault, Gramsci rejected the idea that power relations within a society were diffuse.

The administration of the university has enacted a policy that organizations cannot fail to provide food at an event if its attendees are given to understanding via advertising that there will be food.

The 2008 mortgage crisis is thought to have been caused in large part by lender behavior changes, which, like the continuously eroding lending standards that saddled numerous borrowers with impossible payments and led to unsustainably high-risk loans, and the mortgage options that allowed homeowners to pay interest alone for a time, after which many unsuspecting borrowers found themselves unable to pay the increased bills that included payments on the principal.

Though hobbled in part by prohibitive costs and by the necessity of specialized equipment, the world additive manufacturing industry, which has applications in a multitude of fields ranging from technology and electronics to healthcare, seems to have positioned itself well for widespread adoption in the coming years.