Sentence sequence on DNA sampling in crime/ecology
XAT 2026 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Medium · Verbal Reasoning
Read the following sentences carefully.
- Any viewer of crime dramas might think, though, that there is a better way.
- What would really speed things up would be a means of sampling an entire habitat at one go.
- But, these, too must first be detected and collected—and they will identify only the animal that dropped them.
- Ecologists have thought of this, and it certainly works for things like animal droppings.
- Just as DNA traces on an unwashed glass or a carelessly discarded cigarette butt can place a suspect as having been in a particular place, so can DNA shed by a creature as it goes about its business.
Which of the following options BEST arranges the above sentences in a logical sequence?
- A.
2,3,4,1,5
- B.
1,5,4,3,2
- C.
3,4,5,1,2
- D.
1,4,5,2,3
- E.
4,3,5,2,1
Answer
B
Explanation
Sequence 1-5-4-3-2 logically connects the crime drama trope (1, 5) to ecological droppings (4, 3) and the need for whole-habitat sampling (2).
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