The word "inconsistent" in the context provided means "not uniform in amount." Therefore, the correct answer is:
- not uniform in amount
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paragraph 1,Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they're not. They're, er, violet.
paragraph 2,True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge roses and chrysanthemums into blueness, but doing so is really hard (at least, without the use of dyes). These flowers get their colors from pigments called anthocyanins, which typically look pink or red. A flower must chemically tweak these pigments to make them bluer, and even if they did, the results are essentially purple.
paragraph 3,Only a few flowers, like cornflowers and Himalayan blue poppies, have achieved true blue, and all by using special chemical tricks like adding metals to their pigments, or making their petals more alkaline. "All of this is chemically quite difficult and not many species have evolved the enzymes to do it," says Beverley Glover from the University of Cambridge. "EveThis sentence is from the passage.
"At first, they were puzzled because the iridescence is ,begin emphasis,inconsistent,end emphasis,—strong in some species, but weak in others." (Paragraph 8)
What does the word ,begin emphasis,inconsistent,end emphasis, mean?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
not logical
2.
not predictable
3.
not normally found
4.
not uniform in amount
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