Craft and StructureVery hardChoosing a precise noun in a science ethics text
Craft and Structure practice question
The agreement recognizes Indigenous communities not as donors handing material over to science but as continuing ____ of the seed collections: the varieties remain in community hands, maintained by local growers, with researchers granted access on terms the communities set.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. custodiansCorrect
- B. beneficiaries
- C. critics
- D. subjects
Answer: A. custodians
The communities hold, maintain, and decide access to the seed collections — they are their 'custodians,' or keepers.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. beneficiaries
- The sentence is about who keeps and controls the seeds, not who profits from them.
- C. critics
- The communities maintain the collections; nothing casts them as objectors.
- D. subjects
- 'Subjects' would make the communities the thing studied, but they are the keepers doing the deciding.
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