The main purpose of this passage is to--
open-shut case
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explain the necessary steps in conducting biological
research.
introduce a pioneer in the field of neuroscience
research
encourage continued support for environmental
research.
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illustrate the importance of investigative research.
soares, a graduate student studying biology at the university of maryland, had
wondered about the strange nodules found on the jaws of alligators. she decided to
attigators after a close encounter with one in a louisiana marsh.
daphine soares had originally set out to discem the difference between the way birds,
has bam owls, and alligators perceive sound. but she couldn't but indulge herself
the mystery of the bumps on an alligator's jaw. soares never imagined that before she
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Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Geoffrey is writing a paper investigating friendly-fire incidents in recent us military actions. which paragraph topic would be relevant to his paper and would therefore merit inclusion in his final draft? a) a paragraph criticizing us military actions in the viet nam war b) a paragraph discussing how friendly-fire incidents are investigated c) a paragraph describing what basic boot camp is like for a new army enlistee eliminate d) a paragraph discussing how hard an extended military service can be on a family