Millions of identical copies of a plant can be produced using new tissue-culture and cloning techniques.
If plant propagation by such methods in laboratories proves economical, each of the following, if true, represents a benefit of the new techniques to farmers EXCEPT:
(A) The techniques allow the development of superior strains to take place more rapidly, requiring fewer generations of plants grown to maturity.
(B) It is less difficult to care for plants that will grow at rates that do not vary widely.
(C) Plant diseases and pests, once they take hold, spread more rapidly among genetically uniform plants than among those with genetic variations.
(D) Mechanical harvesting of crops is less difficult if plants are more uniform in size.
(E) Special genetic traits can more easily be introduced into plant strains with the use of the new techniques.
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This is a real technical argument of bio-engineering and would require patient analysis on order to get the best option.
In Option A - INCORRECT, the argument in this option stresses the advantage of process and puts the writer in a vantage position. It is a positive side to the process. It is clearly not what we need.
In Option B - INCORRECT, since it is about culturing and cloning then it doesn't come easier than we experienced in the past about genetic agriculture.
In Option C - INCORRECT, this is wrong because the genetic uniformity amongst the plants are designed in such a way that it poses enough threat to incoming per diseases. So, this option seems the most correct.
In Option D - INCORRECT, mechanic harvesting would of course come easy because it entails uniformity in size and must be without variations. So far the plants in question are complaint then there won't be any difficulty.
In Option E - INCORRECT, this is a solid argument and a positive one at that. Unfortunately, we need a contrary opinion that puts the writer in a less positive position.
In Option A - INCORRECT, the argument in this option stresses the advantage of process and puts the writer in a vantage position. It is a positive side to the process. It is clearly not what we need.
In Option B - INCORRECT, since it is about culturing and cloning then it doesn't come easier than we experienced in the past about genetic agriculture.
In Option C - INCORRECT, this is wrong because the genetic uniformity amongst the plants are designed in such a way that it poses enough threat to incoming per diseases. So, this option seems the most correct.
In Option D - INCORRECT, mechanic harvesting would of course come easy because it entails uniformity in size and must be without variations. So far the plants in question are complaint then there won't be any difficulty.
In Option E - INCORRECT, this is a solid argument and a positive one at that. Unfortunately, we need a contrary opinion that puts the writer in a less positive position.
