Sequence on Scientific Discovery
XAT 2023 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Easy · Para Jumbles
Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
- Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists, chemists and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
- Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
- In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup, whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
- From a mixture of five gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
- A.
1,4,2,3
- B.
1,3,4,2
- C.
2,3,1,4
- D.
3,1,2,4
- E.
1,2,3,4
Answer
E
Explanation
1 introduces broad history, 2 narrows it down to 1953, 3 describes the experiment in 1953, and 4 elaborates on the specifics/results of that experiment.
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