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HMFindlay Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

I thought I was right...

0Microscopic organisms reproduce by splitting in two.02br
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00From the statement above we can say that microscopic organism:02br
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00a- produces offspring which are indentical to the original02br
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00b- reproduce (I think reproduces is correct. Isn't it?) by multiplying and making more cells.02br
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00c- creates new life by making two different cells02br
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00I answered 'a' because splitting in two means cloning to me but it turned out to be wrong and the correct one was 'c'.02br
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00I wonder why! Can someone tell me which one is actually correct?0-
  

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02font 02br 02br 01font 00I wonder why! 00 'C' seems correct to me. I interpet 'differnt' here to mean 'separate'.

— Clive

  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00I wonder why!
  • 00 'C' seems correct to me.
  • I interpet 'differnt' here to mean 'separate'.
  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00'A' seems wrong because the two new organisms are not identical to the original, they are smaller.
  • Do you think that is splitting (no pun intended) hairs?
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0Hi again,02br
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01font00Microscopic organisms reproduce by splitting in two.02font02br
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01font00From the statement above we can say that 01font00a 02font00microscopic organism:02font02br
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0The only exact conclusion that can be drawn from the sentence is that one micro-organism splits into two separate micro-organisms. The original organism does not remain; thus in (a), 'offspring' might be misleading in its implication of a remaining adult, and 'identical' is not necessarily implied as a characteristic of the two new cells.02br
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00I don't particularly lik
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0 'C' seems correct to me. I interpet 'differnt' here to mean 'separate'. 02br
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01font00'A' seems wrong because the two new organisms are not identical to the original, they are smaller. Do you think that is splitting (no pun intended) hairs? 02font02br
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00Clearly, there's a significant language/philosophy comp
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0Clive is highlighting a typo in your original post where 01i00identical 02i00is written as 01i00indentical. 02i00The word you want is 01i00identical02i00.0-
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0It was typing error 05000 Sorry 051010id411id6
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