Choose the option that expresses the same relationship as the following:
Tobacco : Cancer
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Mosquito : Malaria
Tobacco is a cause of the disease cancer: its smoke and juice carry substances that cause cancer of the lungs, mouth and throat. In the same way the mosquito causes malaria: the female Anopheles mosquito carries the malaria parasite and passes it on when it bites.
Why the other options are incorrect
Option (1) Milk : Food — Incorrect. Milk is a kind of food: an item and the class it belongs to.
Option (2) Bud : Flower — Incorrect. A bud grows into a flower: an early stage and the later stage of the same thing.
Option (3) Soil : Erosion — Incorrect. Erosion is what happens to soil when wind or water wears it away; the soil suffers it and does not cause it.