Previous Year Questions

Question :

Directions : In the following passage, some of the words have been left out and replaced by blanks represented with letters. First, read the passage and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill in the blanks as per the questions given.

Homo sapiens - the species to which all modern human beings belong. Homo sapiens is one of several species ____A____ into the genus Homo, but it is the only one that is not extinct. The name Homo sapiens was applied in 1758 by the father of modern biological classification, Carolus Linnaeus. It had long been known that human beings physically resemble the primates ____B____ closely than any other known living organisms, but at the time, it was a daring act to classify human beings within the same framework used for the rest of nature. Linnaeus, concerned exclusively with similarities in bodily structure, faced only the problem of distinguishing H. sapiens from apes, ____C____ differ from humans in numerous bodily as well as cognitive features. Since Linnaeus's time, a large fossil record has been discovered. This record contains numerous extinct species that are much more closely related to humans than to today's apes and that were presumably more similar to H. sapiens behaviorally as well. ____D____ the ancestors of modern human beings into the distant past raises the question of what is meant by the word human. H. sapiens is human by definition, whereas apes are not. But what of the extinct members of the human tribe, who were clearly not H. sapiens but were nonetheless very much like them? There is no ____E____ answer to this question. Although human evolution can be said to involve all those species more closely related to H. sapiens than to the apes, the adjective human is usually applied only to H. sapiens and other members of the genus Homo.

Which of the following words can fill blank (A) in the passage?

I. grouped

II. classified

III. inclusive