Black Plague
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC · Hard · Verbal Ability
The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
- The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human migrations across Europe and Asia.
- The oldest sample came from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago.
- The ages of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today's Russia and Ukraine into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven these migrations.
- In the analysis of fragments of DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons for sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested positive.
- DNA from Bronze Age human skeletons indicate that the black plague could have emerged as early as 3,000 BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through Europe in the mid-1300s.
Answer
54123
Explanation
5 introduces the DNA study showing early emergence of black plague. 4 details the study (101 skeletons tested for Yersinia pestis). 1 gives the conclusion of the study regarding human migrations. 2 describes the oldest sample, and 3 links the age of skeletons to the mass exodus/migrations. So 54123 is the correct sequence.
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