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CAT 2015 Verbal and Reading Comprehension

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Five sentences are given below, labeled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. Write the correct answer in the space given below.

1. There is, however, a gap of at least a billion years between the formation of the earth and these first signs of living organisms.

2. Cyanobacteria are still abundant on earth today.

3. The principal kinds of bacteria were cyanobacteria: the name refers to the blue-green colour, not the production of cyanide

4. A small amount of evidence, mostly still controversial, records the presence of bacteria and perhaps other microbial life in Archaean rocks from Australia and South Africa dated at 3, 5 b yr ago

5. At some point in that interval, life arose on earth in the form of relatively simple self replicating molecules

5,1,2,3,4
3,5,4,2,1
4,3,2,1,5
2,1,5,4,3

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