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(b) is the right answer. The greater prevalence of environmental factors that positively affect longevity is responsible to some extent for the higher life expectancy in Bihar. Therefore, B is the best answer.
If life expectancy in Bihar is going to fall, as A says, the argument is weakened rather than strengthened.
C merely provides data which is irrelevant to the argument.
D is irrelevant because the information it mentions about rates would already have been accounted for in the data provided in the passage.
Which term describes the condition when the stamens and pistils of hermaphrodite flowers mature at different times, facilitating cross-pollination?
The absence of functional pollen grains in otherwise hermaphrodite flowers can be defined as
"Black Spot" disease in roses is caused by which pathogen?
What term is used to describe the phenomenon when a gene influences two or more characters that are not related?
Which mode of reproduction involves the formation of plants without the fusion of male and female gametes?
In backcross method of breeding, the hybrid and the progenies in the subsequent generation are repeatedly ba...
In a specific flowering plant, the pink flower color is not due to a Mendelian single-gene interaction but rather appears to be due to multiple genes ac...
Which method is primarily used for genetic improvement in highly heterozygous, asexually propagated species like sugarcane and potato?
Which tomato variety was developed specifically for prolonged storage and transportation?
The variation in the restriction DNA fragment lengths between individuals of a species is called: