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ID: DSAT-RW-II-008
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Information and Ideas
Topic: Inferences
Difficulty level: Hard

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Certain species of desert beetles have long puzzled scientists by managing to collect water in arid environments where rainfall is extremely scarce. Recent research focused on Stenocara gracilipes, a Namibian beetle whose shell is patterned with hydrophilic bumps surrounded by hydrophobic channels. These structural features allow the beetle to harvest moisture from morning fog: water droplets form on the bumps and then roll down into the channels, ultimately reaching the beetle's mouth. In one experiment, researchers replicated the beetle's shell texture on synthetic surfaces and exposed them to artificial fog. The synthetic surface successfully collected water droplets in a similar fashion, suggesting that ___________________.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Abeetle-inspired surfaces may serve as a model for developing efficient water-harvesting technologies in environments where conventional methods are impractical.

Bsynthetic surfaces can only collect fog-based moisture if they perfectly replicate the microscopic dimensions of Stenocara gracilipes' shell.

Cthe desert beetle's shell is likely to be less effective at harvesting fog-based moisture than artificial surfaces designed in laboratory settings.

Dorganisms in arid environments are unlikely to develop structures capable of absorbing and transporting moisture through passive mechanisms

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