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Questions 166–170 share this
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Which of the following is a suitable title for the passage?
- Mosquitoes and Zika virus
- Genetically modified mosquitoes
- Symptoms of mosquito-borne diseases
- The connection between Brazil and mosquitoes
- The mosquitoes and the honey bees
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Answer: B. Genetically modified mosquitoes
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What is the tone of the passage?
- Informative
- Humorous
- Sarcastic
- Apologetic
- Biased
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Answer: A. Informative
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Which of the following is not correct according to the passage?
- Malarial fever is caused by a virus transmitted to humans primarily by the bite of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes.
- The fluorescence gene is used to identify GM mosquitoes.
- The lethality gene, which is more accurately called tetracycline transcriptional activator variant (or tTAV), encodes a protein that blocks the transcription of several other genes that are essential to mosquito development.
- Scientists released GM mosquitoes into a neighborhood in Brazil.
- When adult GM mosquitoes are released into the wild and breed with wild, non-GM mosquitoes, their offspring inherit the lethality gene.
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Answer: A. Malarial fever is caused by a virus transmitted to humans primarily by the bite of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes.
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Choose the synonym for the word 'transcription' given in the passage.
- introduction
- evidence
- variation
- induction
- deduction
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Answer: B. evidence
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Which of these is an antonym to the word 'sustained' given in the passage?
- nourished
- sporadic
- back
- relieved
- prolonged
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Answer: B. sporadic