A certain cultivated herb is one of a group of closely related plants that thrive in soil with high concentrations of metals that are toxic to most other plants. Agronomists studying the herb have discovered that it produces large amounts of histidine, an amino acid that, in test-tube solutions, renders these metals chemically inert. Possibly, therefore, the herb’s high histidine production is what allows it to grow in metal-rich soils, a hypothesis that would gain support if ______.
A.others of the closely related group of plants are also found to produce histidine in large quantities
B.cultivation of the herb in soil with high concentrations of the metals will, over an extended period, make the soil suitable for plants to which the metals are toxic
結論:此草本植物中的高濃度組氨酸是使它能夠在重金屬土壤山生存的原因。
原因:A家研究發現組氨酸能夠使這些金屬產生惰性。
A項,注意others of the closely related group of plants指代的內容!
題幹首句已經指出,the closely related group of plant是指能夠在高濃度重金屬環境下生存的植物群。而題幹說的a certain herb僅是這些植物群中的其中一種!
題幹一直在說這種herb能夠忍受高濃度的重金屬,因為組氨酸的存在。
那麼,如果這些植物群中的其他植物體內,都被發現能夠產生高濃度的組氨酸的話,是不是說明了組氨酸就是這些植物群or題幹所在的某種herb能夠忍受高濃度重金屬的原因呢?
B項,的確,組氨酸的作用可能僅發生在植物體內,也可能是它跟土壤之間的作用。但是根據萬惡的GMAC出題的多向性思考方式,導致土壤無毒的原因不一定是組氨酸。有可能是其他amino acid,B項不能唯一地說明結論。
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