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Master seed lots of the HM-175

by patanjali.purpose » Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:42 am

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Master seed lots of the HM-175 strain of hepatitis A virus have been triply cloned.

A) have been triply cloned
B) has been cloned three times
C) have cloned thrice
D) has been thrice cloned
E) have been cloned three times

Pls explain your pick.
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by MakeUrTimeCount » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:23 am

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Master seed lots is plural so B, D are out.
Cloing has already been completed. So C out.
Cloning results in multiplication of something and so E out.

I will go with A.

What's the OA ?
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by sam2304 » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:53 am

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Even i will go with A.

B/D - has is wrong
C/E - triply cloned is different from cloned three times/thrice - wrong

IMO A.
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by patanjali.purpose » Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:34 pm

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MakeUrTimeCount wrote:Master seed lots is plural so B, D are out.
Cloing has already been completed. So C out.
Cloning results in multiplication of something and so E out.

I will go with A.

What's the OA ?
If we just leave cloned out for our discussion, "Have cloned (in C) VS Have been cloned (in A) - only difference is the doer (Ist is active while the 2nd is passive). So your point that
Cloing has already been completed. So C out.
may not be appropriate. There could be some other reason.
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by patanjali.purpose » Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:35 pm

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sam2304 wrote:Even i will go with A.

B/D - has is wrong
C/E - triply cloned is different from cloned three times/thrice - wrong

IMO A.
OA - A

Could you elaborate how you think triply cloned is different from cloned three times/thrice?
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by sam2304 » Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:47 pm

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triply cloned seems to be cloning once with threefold measure, whereas cloned three times/thrice seems to be repetition for 3 times.
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by MakeUrTimeCount » Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:09 am

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Hi Patanjali,
Sorry, I forgot to mention the literal difference,
Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

A) Two numbers A abd B have been triply multiplied.
Implies that the numbers have been multiplied by someone.

B) Two number have multiplied thrice.
Implies that the numbers have multiplied themselves.

Here B) is wrong because numbers can't multiply themselves.

Hope this helps.

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by jack2012 » Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:57 pm

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I will go A. Good luck
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