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Question 3 :The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

Humans have managed to tweak the underlying biology of various plants and animals to produce high-tech crops and microbes. But regulating these entities is complicated, as the framework of policies and procedures are outdated and not flexible enough to adapt to emerging technology. The question is whether regulation will ever be able to keep up with human innovation, to regulate living things, which are apt to be unpredictable and unique; to capture all the potential risks when new biological entities are introduced, or when they pass on variations of their genes?

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Explanatory Answer

The paragraph observes that regulating innovations that tweak the underlying biology of various plants and animals is complicated, as policies and procedures become outdated and are not flexible enough to adapt to emerging technology. It questions whether regulation can keep up with human innovation and capture all potential risks. Option 2 is a good summary.
Note that the paragraph only questions whether it is possible to have proper regulation of the emergent technology. It does not say that such regulation is urgently needed to regulate the most recent research in the field (as option 1 says) or declare that it is impossible to imagine the outcomes or risks related to the research (as option 3 says). So, both these options are incorrect.
While the paragraph does say that living things are apt to be unpredictable and unique, it does not say that this mercurial nature of biological entities is why the regulations governing emerging technology have to be put in place. Option 4 is hence incorrect.

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Hence, the answer is 'Current regulation of biotechnology is outdated, but it is debatable if we can create a framework, imaginative and flexible, to cover all contingencies in this fast-changing area.'

Choice B is the correct answer.

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