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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?
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ACT Aspire Reading: Why Don't Tailed Frogs Have Ears? 0 Views
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Description:
The passage suggests that adult tailed frogs are non-vocal and lack ear membranes because:
Transcript
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Okay Aspiring reader people Here we go four of ten
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The passage suggests that adult tailed frogs are non vocal
- 00:12
and lack ear membranes because why So let's think about
- 00:21
this one here since nearby rapids and waterfalls create noise
- 00:24
that drowns out sound while the adult tailed frog doesn't
Full Transcript
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need the ability to call and hear it wouldn't serve
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any purpose anyway or helped them in mating You know
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giggity so they simply don't have the traits anymore Sounds
- 00:36
efficient about that appendix Well in terms of being beneficial
- 00:40
for mating and not being able to here or call
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out does make a difference Get b instead it's the
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extension of the male frogs inside out reproductive opening that
- 00:47
helps with baby making Also the pastors doesn't say anything
- 00:51
about any other species in the park having the same
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adaptations so get her to see you As far as
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we know this is exclusively a tailed frog thing Lastly
- 00:59
the text does not say whether tadpoles have the ability
- 01:02
to call and hear our visibility disappears as they mature
- 01:05
into adults So get rid of a The passage states
- 01:08
that the adults don't have the ability while tadpoles have
- 01:11
their own traits You know like sucker mounds and strong
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tales That's it It's devi ability called here right Well
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no longer matter It's sort of like after you've been 00:01:19.317 --> [endTime] married thirty years
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