CAT 2017 Slot 1 VARC · Question 27
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it
may have driven human migrations across Europe and Asia.
2. The oldest sample came
from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago.
3. The ages
of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today's Russia and Ukraine
into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven these
migrations.
4. In the analysis of fragments of DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons for
sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested
positive.
5. DNA from Bronze Age human skeletons indicate that the black plague
could have emerged as early as 3,000 BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through
Europe in the mid-1300s.
Type-in answer (TITA): no options, no negative marking.
Sign in free to see the answer and the step-by-step solution.
Show answer