[Video] Q23: The passage suggests that in designing the experiment, johnson relied on the fact that

Explanation for Question 23 From the Reading Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 23 says the passage suggests that in designing the experiment, 2 Johnson relied on the fact that blank. 3 So let's think through these items here and see if these are facts that 4 he relied upon for his experiment. 5 Option a says that fungal hyphae weren't being Spock's beanstalks of danger. 6 If a nearby plant is packed, now it might seem like, 7 okay. Yeah, that seems to be what he's relying on, 8 but that's actually what the experiment is. 9 Testing, not what the experiment design is relying on. 10 So if that makes sense, he's trying to, it's like I'm trying to test 11 B and I know that a needs to exist in order to test B, 12 but he doesn't know that B exists in order to test B it's like 13 you can't know something exists in order to test itself. 14 So therefore that option is wrong, even though off the cuff, 15 it might seem right. 16 Option visas wasps are harmful to the ongoing existence of broad bean plants now, 17 and this is actually the opposite. He says that wasps are things that help 18 scare off aphids and our call for the plants, 19 by the chemicals they release. And they're actually helpful to the existence of broadband 20 plans. Option C says a broad bean plants release noxious chemicals 21 to ward off infestation. And this is something that he relies upon. 22 He relies upon the fact that they're going to release these chemicals to scare 23 away these aphids. And this is one of their defense mechanisms. 24 And this fact that they're rele...