More often than not, mothers are ____________ for oddities of behavior in their offspring. ____________, single mothers' children, raised even in the most difficult of times, do not display 'outrageous' patterns of behavior, as do those of nuclear families.
-Asia Pacific Institute Of Management.
In measuring electrical activity in different parts of the brain, researchers found that people who describe themselves as generally happy have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe of their brains than do other people. Therefore, a medication for ____________ the left prefrontal lobe of the brain would be an ____________ treatment for clinical depression.
If it is said- Some A are not B, does it mean- Some A are B?
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All plants have chlorophyll.
All plants have leaves.
Some leaves have chlorophyll.
Is this a valid syllogism? With explanation reply-
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If it is said- All A are not B, does it mean- Some A are B?
With explanation reply-
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The idea is that the evolution of the dog was not just a matter of artificial selection. It was at least as much a case of wolves adapting to the ways of man by natural selection. Much of the initial domestication of the dog was self-domestication, mediated by natural, not artificial, selection.
Real wolves are pack hunters. Village dogs are scavengers; wolves scavenge too, but they are not temperamentally suited to scavenging human rubbish because of their long 'flight distance'. If you see an animal feeding, you can measure its flight distance by seeing how close it will let you approach before fleeing. For any given species in any given situation, there will be an optimal flight distance, somewhere between too risky or foolhardy at the short end, and too flighty or risk-averse at the long end. Individuals that take off too late when danger threatens are more likely to be killed by that very danger. Individuals that are too flighty never get a square meal, because they run away at the first hint of danger on the horizon.
Natural selection will work on the flight distance, moving it one way or the other along the continuum if conditions change over evolutionary time. If a plenteous new food source in the form of village rubbish dumps enters the world of wolves that is going to shift the optimum point towards the shorter end of the flight distance continuum.
Decreasing flight distance is a behavioral measure of what might be called increasing tameness. At this early stage, the only interactions between humans and these incipient dogs were hostile. If wolves were becoming domesticated it was by self-domestication, not deliberate domestication by people.
Wild foxes are tricky to handle, and the Russian geneticist Belyaev set out deliberately to breed for tameness. Belyaev and his colleagues subjected fox cubs to standardized tests in which an experimenter would offer a cub food by hand, while trying to stroke or fondle it. The cubs were classified into three classes. Class III cubs were those that fled from or bit the person. Class II cubs would allow themselves to be handled, but showed no positive responsiveness to the experimenters. Class I cubs, the tamest of all, positively approached the handlers, wagging their tails and whining. When the cubs grew up, the experimenters systematically bred only from this tamest class.
After 35 generations, the tame foxes not only behaved like domestic dogs, they looked like them. Their tails turned up at the end like a dog's, rather than down like a fox's brush. According to Belyaev, they even sounded like dogs. Those other dog-like characteristics seemingly rode on the evolutionary coat_tails of the genes for tameness. To geneticists, this is not surprising. They recognize a widespread phenomenon called 'pleiotropy', whereby genes have more than one effect, seemingly unconnected.
QUESTIONS
What behaviour would you expect of a tenth generation feral dog, that is a dog whose great10 ancestor was domesticated but escaped back to the forest?
A)
It would become more wolf-like.
B)
It would become more fox-like.
C)
It would behave like the quintessential village-dog.
D)
It would find new 'domestic' affiliations in the forest
question 2
Of the birds mentioned below, which would you expect to have the shortest 'flight distance'?
A)
Sparrow
B)
Humming bird
C)
Crow
D)
Eagle
Question 3
All of the following could be characteristics of the tamed foxes, except..
A)
They lost their foxy pelage and became piebald black and white
B)
Their foxy prick ears were replaced by doggy floppy ears.
C)
The females came on heat every six months like a bitch, instead of every year like a vixen.
D)
The color of the fur of the species, vulpes , which is red, changed to silver thereby increasing its value to the breeder
Question
The passage helps answer all of the following questions to a student of evolutionary biology, EXCEPT
A)
How does a turned up tail help a dog become a better survivor?
B)
What is the role of the environment in evolution?
C)
Do scavengers have a better chance for survival compared to predators?
D)
What role has artificial selection played in the evolution of man?
#RC:
Arthur Schopenhauer - the 19th century German philosopher for whom human existence was a perpetually swinging 'pendulum between suffering and boredom', and the world itself a hell in which 'human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other' - comes off as a fairly depressing guy. But the author of such elegantly corrosive essays as 'On the Vanity and Suffering of Life' and 'The Fullness of Nothingness' is also apparently responsible for the quote that probably appeared on the inside of the card you gave your dad on his 50thbirthday: 'Just remember: once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.'
I discovered this not in the old-fashioned way of reading Schopenhauer's actual writing - which, as I say, tends to be filled with stuff about how life is a meaningless ordeal of suffering alleviated only by a meaningless death - but by the more modern means of happening across it on the website brainyquote.com. I'd been tracking down the source of a different Schopenhauer quotation, but these days if you're looking for anything remotely pithy online, you'll inevitably wind up being pointed in the direction of BrainyQuote, or one of a whole black economy of similar quote stockists. These sites are an inevitable outcome of the process by which we've outsourced knowledge to the third party of technology. This superficial democratization of erudition is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean you don't have to have read Schopenhauer, or really anything much at all, to have access to just the right Schopenhauer quotation for your particular needs - and no grounds to suspect when the quotation you select has nothing to do with its ostensible source.
As I've modestly intimated above, I've read a bit of Schopenhauer. And so I suspected straight away that these suspiciously Hallmarkian words were unlikely to have flowed from his poison-tipped quill. Leaving aside the sentiment itself, the phrase just conspicuously lacks the black gleam of his prose. So I did some more Googling, and found that, although it is the most prominent, BrainyQuote is not the only place to have attributed the 'over the hill' line to Schopenhauer. There it is on quote-wise.com, searchquotes.com, excellentquotations.com - to name just a handful of the bigger hitters in the online quotes racket. And through this wilderness of mirrored sources, a wonderfully weird misattribution has made its way outward into the world.
I have come up with an explanation for this misattribution that, while admittedly not airtight, is at least credible. The 'over the hill' line is commonly attributed to Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts - he is not its original author, but it's used in one of his strips. The root of the confusion here is, I think, the alphabetical proximity of Schopenhauer to Schulz. If you're listing quotations alphabetically, Schopenhauer is going to appear very close to - in fact likely just right above - Schulz.
Because of the speed and abandon with which the Internet disseminates error, tracking the source of an online misattribution is usually a difficult business. It's often the case in these situations that the true source of the quotation is unknown, and so it randomly attaches itself to some name-brand figure whose saying or writing such a thing seems vaguely plausible. This is how, for example, Edmund Burke winds up getting credited with the very nifty - though only superficially Burkean - 'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.'
But the real villain here, as far as I'm concerned, is this vast quote-aggregation industrial complex that doth bestride the narrow online world like a colossus, to paraphrase ... I don't know, but let's go with Shia Labeouf. These sites cater to a growing appetite for filleted wisdom, for deboned wit, for the mechanically separated meat of literature. They exemplify the way in which the Internet has disrupted the erudition vertical, from Wikipedia to the ascent of explainer-based journalism. But that, as Schopenhauer himself famously put it, is just the way the cookie crumbles.
What is this passage about?
1) How quotation websites misattribute quotations
2) How quotations get misused or misunderstood on the Internet
3) How Arthur Schopenhauer's quotations are misattributed on the Internet
4) How Arthur Schopenhauer quotations are misunderstood on quotation websites
The author's attitude towards quotation websites like Brainy Quote is:
1) execrable.2) excoriating. 3) excruciating.4) exculpatory.
If you had an opportunity to interview the author, what would it make most sense to ask him?
1) Do quotation websites serve any useful purpose?
2) Who is the original author of the 'over the hill' quotation?
3) What are some actual quotations by Arthur Schopenhauer?
4) How did the 'triumph of evil' quotation get attributed to Edmund Burke?
The last sentence of the passage is meant to be:
1) a quotation sarcastically misattributed to Schopenhauer.
2) a deliberate misquotation of a famous saying by Schopenhauer.
3) a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of a quotation that is not by Schopenhauer.
4) a resigned acceptance of how the internet works.
Based on the information given in this passage, which of the following quotations is most likely to be a genuine one by Schopenhauer?
1) Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.
2) Fame is something which must be won; honour, only something which must not be lost.
3) There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - to be got over.
4) The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
-IMS
How many questions, in each section, should be correctly attempted to score more than 99+ %ile?
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Stationary items like pen, pencil, and paper are NOT ALLOWED inside the examination hall..
It shouldbe Stationary or Stationery ?RC Funda:
Main theme:
1.Correct answer can neither be too specific nor too generic.
Typically, the subject matter of the passage will not be there in the correct answer choice.
2.Structure words are typically part of your main theme lines.
Structure words- But, however, nevertheless, in contrast, on the other hand, more over, therefore, thus, in summary, in conclusion.
3. Lines having structure words are very important please highlight it whenever you read any RC.
Tones:
Identify keywords/indicators
Author's opinion/Feeling
1. Identify the tone words in answer choice
2.Check whether tone words aligns with question or not.
(If it doesn't eliminate the answer choice)
3. Now look at the rest of the ans choices and see if it aligns with the question.
*Avoid strong tones as much as possible.
*Avoid redundancy in the ans choice.
*Avoid ambiguous tones.
Tones - General tones(Cannot chose strong tones) and Data base tones(You can chose strong tones)
Inference based Questions:
Keywords- Infer/ Implied / Suggest / Most probably / Most likely / Least probably
Type- Generic Inference (Tough)
Data Base Inference (Easy)
How to approach:
Use Process of elimination rather than looking for the right answer.
How do we eliminate?
Characteristics of wrong answer choice:
1. The nouns in the wrong answer choice will not match/ relate with the nouns in the passage.
2.Typically the wrong answer choice will have strong toned words.
Strong toned words -> Must, Should , Will , Only , Definitely
3. Cut copy paste answer choice ( Restatement of Author's idea is fine)
Data Base Inference:
"Data based Q + Inference
Keywords- According to the author--
General Inference:
You cannot justify the correct answer is correct because it is not definitely correct but because others are definitely wrong.
In worst case
Align your answer to the main theme, mark and move on.
Hypothetical: (Tough attend only if you can do it )
Type 1.
1. What i most likely to be source of the passage.
Align your answer with the main theme
"Only correct answer will have main theme plus extra"
Type 2.
What could be the title of particular passage.
"Main theme + Subject matter of passage"
"Align main theme and subject matter of the passage"
Title will have 1.Subject matter 2. Action taken by subject matter 3.Effect of the action
Type 3.
Which of the line can immediately follow the last paragraph of the passage
-Align your answer to the idea given in the last two or three lines of the last paragraph
Type 4.
Which of the following Analogies closely resembles the reasoning given by the author in the passage?
1.Identify the reasoning given by the author in the passage.
2.Adjective and adverb in the answer choice will give clue.
3.Match the adjectives and adverb in the reasoning with the adjectives and adverb in the ans choice.
complete the para
The quest for planet M always starts out with celestial objects behaving badly. Astronomers notice that a known planet, or a bunch of comets, begins moving in ways, Newton's laws of motion cannot explain. They propose that it is caused by the gravity of something massive and still undiscovered lurking out in the solar system. Most often it's all a big mistake; the unexplained motion just turns out to be an incorrect measurement.
a)Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led astronomers to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet.
b)The search for the unknown has thrown up many exciting discoveries.
c)Astronomers are never deterred by their failed theories.
d)So when a pair of astronomers advanced their recent theory about a new mystery planet in our solar system their colleagues mostly just listened politely, then went back to work.
How to start preparation 26 days before cat exam are there any important topics that i should cover first ? i don't need a very good percentile i just need some 70+ percentile is it possible ? please guys help me !!
In the tragically familiar case of "domesticated" exotic animals turning on their owner, Humphry the hippo has mauled his keeper to death. South African army major and farmer Desmond Morris who kept the 2600 lb. hippo as a pet on his farm was killed after Humphry dragged him into a river after mauling him. Morris was found bitten many times and left in the water for a very long time. It was an unexpected bout of violence as Morris treated the hippo "like a son".
a)The 40 year old Morris raised Humphry from the age of five months, after the young hippo was stranded during floods.
b)Domesticated as he may have been, its clear Humphry still had a wild side.
c)Morris is survived by his wife, as well as the giraffe and rhino he was rearing.
d)He has once told a friend, "There is a relationship between me and Humphry and that is what some people do not understand".
ans is D ...i thought it was B as it somehow summed up the para ...could u pls explain why D and not B??
The Bank which opened its first branch in Shanghai in 2006 - almost a decade after it set up a representative office - received the green light from Chinese regulators to open a second branch in this thriving port city, through which much of India's trade with northern China is routed. The Shanghai branch was allowed to start operations in the local Renminbi (RMB) currency in 2010. "The success achieved at the Shanghaibranch has encouraged us to strengthen our presence in China by upgrading our representative office in Tianjin to a branch," said the Bank's Managing Director.
a)Foreign bank licensing policy is gradual in China, and all these banks are at various stages of establishing their operations," he said.
b)"The bank works with around 90 Indian companies which trade with China and around 200 Chinese companies" he added.
c)The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is the only Chinese bank with a branch in India,
d)India has called on China to expand banking links between the two countries and to enhance licensing procedures.
Puys, can some one suggest what would be a good source to practice grammar at this point... Something that will help me atleast cover up most important and frequently asked rules, leaving the phrasal verbs aside ...
At one's fingertips
At close quarters
SENTENCE CORRECTION:
Recently flood in the region has destroyed the livelihood of several thousand tribals.
A Recently flooded
B In the recent flood
C Recent flooding
D During recent flood
E No correction required
I getting 60-65% accuracy in RC in sectional tests! So in real time I vl get 10 questions correct out of 15! Should I go on and attend all the RCs? Or should I move to other topics... suggestions are needed badly. ..