How Does The Biological Clock Tick? IELTS Reading Answers

Updated On Apr 16, 2021

How Does The Biological Clock Tick? IELTS Reading Answers

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1 How Does The Biological Clock Tick?
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The Academic passage ‘How Does The Biological Clock Tick?’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 14. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.

How Does The Biological Clock Tick?

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Question number	Answer	Keywords	Location of keywords
1	ix	Although the same law holds for a living organism, the result of this law is not inexorable in the same way. At least as long as a biological system has the ability to renew itself it could actually become older without ageing; an organism is an open, dynamic system through which new material continuously flows.	Paragraph B; Lines 3 – 4
2	ii	Immortality would disturb this system – it needs room for new and better life. This is the basic problem of evolution.	Paragraph C; Lines 6 – 7
3	vii	Although more and more people attain an advanced age as a result of developments in medical care and better nutrition, the characteristic upper limit for most remains 80 years.	Paragraph D; Line 4
4	i	If a life span is a genetically determined biological characteristic, it is logically necessary to propose the existence of an internal clock	Paragraph E; Line 1
5	viii	Animals which behave ‘frugally’ with energy become particularly old, for example, crocodiles and tortoises	Paragraph F; Line 1
6	iv	It follows from the above that sparing use of energy reserves should tend to extend life	Paragraph G; Line 1
7	physical chemistry, thermodynamics IN EITHER ORDER	Ageing in this case must occur according to the laws of physical chemistry and of thermodynamics	Paragraph B; Line 3
8	physical chemistry, thermodynamics IN EITHER ORDER	Ageing in this case must occur according to the laws of physical chemistry and of thermodynamics	Paragraph B; Line 3
9	adapt	Because of changes in the genetic material (mutations) these have new characteristics and in the course of their individual lives they are tested for optimal or better adaptation to the environmental conditions.	Paragraph C; Line 5
10	immortality	Immortality would disturb this system – it needs room for new and better life. This is the basic problem of evolution.	Paragraph C; Lines 6 – 7
11	NO	But are the wear and tear and loss of function of technical objects and the death of living organisms really similar or comparable?	Paragraph A; Last line
12	YES	At least as long as a biological system has the ability to renew itself it could actually become older without ageing; an organism is an open, dynamic system through which new material continuously flows.	Paragraph B; Line 4
13	NOT GIVEN	–	–
14	YES	sparing use of energy reserves should tend to extend life.	Paragraph G; Line 1

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