LSAT 69, Reading Comprehension, Q25

DISCUSSION: You’ll want to justify your answer using the passage. These questions almost always have a line reference that lets you prove an answer is correct, with 100% certainty.

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1. CORRECT. See lines 54-57. Speke showed that Calvaria major seeds can germinate even if they haven’t been abraded by bird gizzards.
2. Lines 39-41 contradict this. Turkey gizzards destroyed many of the seeds.
3. Lines 39-41 indicate that turkey gizzards could abrade Calvaria major seeds. This suggest dodos could also have abraded Calvaria major seeds.
4. Very tricky. Lines 19-25 show that Temple hypothesized that Dodos commonly ate the Calvaria major fruit.He had no proof for this idea. How could he? The dodo is extinct. And he didn’t find any Calvaria major pits inside dead dodos.

   Temple’s theory was just that: a theory. He didn’t prove that dodos had anything to do with Calvaria major trees!

5. The passage never mentioned natural forces that could abrade the pits of Calvaria major seeds. This answer is a wild goose chase.

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