Farina wrote:
Scrat wrote:
"a (_) surprisingly, be beneficial to the colony in which the bacterium lives"
From what I understand the blank should be filled with something that has a materialistic potential to benefit the bacteria community. Both the theory and hypothesis are synonymous and TRAPS. It will benefit and that is somewhat the theory is.... so the theory refers to something else and that should be the correct answer. So susceptibility and characteristic, though not synonyms are the right answers.
Regards,
Scrat
How to identify when the synonyms are traps?
Every SE tells a STORY.
Here, the story is about the nature of a bacterium:
A particular bacterium that has never encountered a particular virus will usually succumb to it.Only A and C can serve to describe this story, which discusses a
characteristic of bacterium -- a characteristic that involves
susceptibility to a virus.
Since there is no guesswork in the story,
theory and
hypothesis are not viable.
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