Contested Usage

Question 1

Choose the best summary of these two passages.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

DNA sequencing will replace fingerprinting because it will give scientists more detailed and useful information about people.

Question 2

What idea is developed in the first passage with the term “discovery”?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Science improves people’s lives.

Question 3

Which key term is found in the first passage?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

discovery

Question 4

How does the second passage develop the idea of discovery that was introduced in the first passage? It says that

Revolt · Accepted Answer

DNA testing helps prove innocence or guilt.

Question 5

How does the second passage develop Kaku’s idea that humans have become active choreographers of nature?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

by saying that people can now read DNA to understand individual characteristics

Question 6

Choose the best summary of these two passages.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

DNA sequencing will replace fingerprinting because it will give scientists more detailed and useful information about people.

Question 7

Identify the important ideas about DNA. Check all of the central ideas from the passage.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

DNA fingerprinting will become obsolete.; DNA testing will become more sophisticated.; DNA can reveal all of a person’s characteristics.

Contested Usage Answers