Lucas M. answered • 06/19/19
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Answer Choices A and D are the correct answers because Lines 72-76 say that “Such a general response no doubt helps the plant first attacked by attracting yet more wasps to the area, and it helps the fungal messengers by preserving their leguminous hosts,” which most clearly tells us about the general nature of the relationship between broad bean plants and the fungi discussed in the passage and best match Answer Choice A, which describes the relationship as “mutually beneficial, since both organisms profit from the arrangement.” For Question 30, Answer Choices A, B and C are incorrect because each only further explains the conclusions of the study, without offering a general picture of the relationship between the fungi and the bean-stalk plants. For Question 29, Answer Choice B is incorrect because the Text and Passage describes how both the bean-stalk plants and the fungi are helped, and not that the relationship is unbalanced. Answer Choice C is also incorrect, because the Passage describes how both organisms help one another, and don’t tell us that one is harmed by the exchange. Answer Choice D is incorrect because it makes too specific a claim in comparison to Choice A, and because the Passage describes how an independent bean-stalk plant can produce chemicals on its own (Lines 10-13) and that fungi are the messengers, not that neither organism “can produce chemicals independently of the other.”
How to solve this? Question 29 asks, “Which choice best describes the nature of the relationship between the broad bean plants and fungi discussed in the passage?” Because this is a Paired Question, to solve it we should begin by going through the answer choices for Question 30, looking for any texts that tell us generally about the relationship between the broad bean plants and fungi.
For Question 30, Answer Choice A says [...].
