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Hope you're wearing your smartypants and/or thinking cap for this one...

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You probably don't need to pause and review the passage,

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what with your photographic memory and all,

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but... just so you know it's an option...

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Both scientists agree that... what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Once again, we want 2 out of 2 scientists to agree on something.

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Option A... Auxin is important for creating the plant's pattern.

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Be careful with this one...both scientists do mention auxin being important...but this

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says that auxin is specifically important to plant patterns.

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Not true.

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Scientist 1 said auxin is used for producing leaves,

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and scientist 2 said auxin DOESN'T tell the plant where to grow leaves.

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So that's a no on A.

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Now for option B... stress is important for patterning.

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Nah. Scientist 1 is entirely stress-free. Well, his paragraph is, anyway.

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What about C?

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Well, none of the scientists mention plants having ugly patterns...

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...let's come back to this one.

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Option D. Leaves and flowers are patterned by different mechanisms.

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Uh, no. Let's just take a look at Scientist 1's paragraph.

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It says that plant patterning is dependent ENTIRELY on auxin.

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Well, last time we checked, the entirety of a plant included both the leaves and flowers,

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so Scientist 1 would have to disagree with this statement.

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Which brings us back to option C... by process of elimination.

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Both scientists spent all this time describing the wonders of plant patterning

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and if there's one thing these guys know, it's amazing patterns.

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Check out those ties.

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