In the passage, the function of the highlighted portion( in yeast and worms, metabolism is both sped up and altered) is to
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The university's once _____ department of economic history has lost prestige and transmogrified into a department of management and marketing.
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The passage is primarily concerned with which of the following?
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Many of the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the county's solid waste plan have done so not because they necessarily (i)_____ incinerators, but because they are (ii)_____ to narrow their waste-disposal options.
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Far from _____________ innovations, as the patent system was designed to do, the patenting of concepts such as gene sequences gives individuals and corporations a legal choke to hold over ideas that should be useful to all.
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The (i)_____ quality of much contemporary drawing may be attributable to the use of photography as a drawing shortcut. Photography (ii)_____ modern arts, but when it is used as a tracing tool in order to (iii)_____ the difficulties of achieving correct proportion, the resulting art often feels static and lifeless.
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Historically, the depletion of soil's nitrogen has been one of the most _____ problems faced by farmers: an essential nutrient, nitrogen is quickly leached from soil, and farmers have struggled to find ways to replenish it.
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The politician`s record while in office, though (i)_____, hardly accounts for her high standard three decades later-a standing all the more (ii)_____ because of continuing assaults on her reputation during those years.
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Contrary to those who fear the impact of invasive species on native plants, the biologists contend that the threat posed to biodiversity by nonnative species is often (i)_____. For instance, a study of garlic mustard, a nonnative plant now thriving in Minnesota`s oak forests, found that garlic mustard abundance in forest plots was not (ii)_____ the number of other plant species there.
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Instead of demonstrating the _____ of archaeological applications of electronic remote sensing, the pioneering study became, to some skeptics, an illustration of the imprudence of interpreting sites based on virtual archaeology.
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According to the passage, scientists are able to discover weathered material on the Martian surface because they have benefited from which of the following?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "contradiction" mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
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