Exercise and Brain

CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC · Easy · Verbal Ability

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

  1. Neuroscientists have just begun studying exercise's impact within brain cells — on the genes themselves.
  2. Even there, in the roots of our biology, they've found signs of the body's influence on the mind.
  3. It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
  4. In today's technology-driven, plasma-screened-in world, it's easy to forget that we are born movers — animals, in fact — because we've engineered movement right out of our lives.
  5. It's only in the past few years that neuroscientists have begun to describe these factors and how they work, and each new discovery adds awe-inspiring depth to the picture
Answer

4

Explanation

Sentences 1, 2, 3, and 5 specifically discuss neuroscientific discoveries on how physical exercise impacts brain cells and thought processes. Sentence 4 makes a general societal remark about modern technology causing lack of movement, which does not fit into the scientific flow. Thus 4 is the odd one out.

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