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CAT 2025 Slot 2 RC passage: Cavefish adaptation and evolution
This is passage 2 of the four Reading Comprehension passages in CAT 2025 Slot 2. It comes with 4 questions in the real exam. Below are the question stems; sign in to read the full passage and practise it with all options, the answer key and explanations.
Passage facts
- Exam
- CAT 2025
- Slot
- 2 of 3
- Position
- Passage 2 of 4
- Questions
- 4
- Passage length
- about 530 words
- Topic
- Cavefish adaptation and evolution
Questions in this set
- All of the following statements from the passage describe adaptation in Mexican tetra cavefish EXCEPT:
- Which one of the following best explains why the "apparent inefficiency" is "unavoidable"?
- Which one of the following results for the cross between surface fish (with eyes) and cavefish (without eyes) would invalidate Riddle's inference from the experiment?
- On the basis of the information in the passage, what is the most likely function of carotenoids in Mexican tetra cavefish?
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