Question:

The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human migrations across Europe and Asia. 
2. The oldest sample came from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago. 
3. The ages of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today's Russia and Ukraine into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven these migrations. 
4. In the analysis of fragments of DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons for sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested positive. 
5. DNA from Bronze Age human skeletons indicate that the black plague could have emerged as early as 3,000 BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through Europe in the mid-1300s.

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The Correct Option is A

Solution and Explanation

The opening statement in this case will be 5 as it introduces the topic of the discussion, specifically when the Black Plague emerged. After this, 4 follows as it furthers the results of the examination of DNA fragments. Subsequently, 1 comes in to provide additional information related to 4. Following that, 2 is included to offer evidence supporting what is stated in 1. Lastly, 3 concludes the story by linking the term 'migration' to the preceding information. Therefore, the logical sequence is 5-4-1-2-3.

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