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It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria that first drew attention to the possibility that the sickle cell gene might confer resistance to the disease.
(A) It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria that
(B) It was the geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria that
(C) The geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria was what
(D) The geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria coinciding was what
(E) It was that the geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria were coincident that
(A) It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria that
(B) It was the geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria that
(C) The geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria was what
(D) The geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria coinciding was what
(E) It was that the geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria were coincident that
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Biochemistry of Resistance to Malaria
Milton J. Friedman and William Trager
Scientific American
Vol. 244, No. 3 (March 1981), pp. 154-165
Published by: Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24964333
Page Count: 12
It was the coincidence of the geographic range of sickle-cell disease with the range of malaria that first drew attention to the possibility that the sickle-cell gene might confer such resistance
The Biochemistry of Resistance to Malaria
Milton J. Friedman and William Trager
Scientific American
Vol. 244, No. 3 (March 1981), pp. 154-165
Published by: Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24964333
Page Count: 12
It was the coincidence of the geographic range of sickle-cell disease with the range of malaria that first drew attention to the possibility that the sickle-cell gene might confer such resistance
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No, "that" (or any modifier as such) does not necessarily refer to the previous noun (i.e. the noun touching it).
This is an emphatic usage "it was X that did Y". Here "that" refers to "coincidence".
Please note that there are exceptions to "modifier touch rule" and this is such an exception. Another mission critical modifier (especially prepositional modifier) may come in between a noun and its modifier. Here the prepositional modifier "of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria" comes in between the "coincidence" and "that" and such exceptions are allowed in GMAT.
[Nonetheless I see a different problem with option A: it appears that "that of" is missing before "malaria". Probably the parallelism is violated - " geographical range" is compared to "malaria". The correct sentence would be:
It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and that of malaria that first drew attention to the possibility that........
There should be 3 "that"s in the sentence; I have tried to match them with their respective antecedents using different colours above.]
22 Mar 2012, 06:02
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It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria that first drew attention to the possibility that the sickle cell gene might confer resistance to the disease.
(A) It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria that
--> CORRECT
(B) It was the geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria that
--> seems to say range coincided with malaria-illogical
Also meaning is changed: also the coincidence should be the main subject as because it was the coincidence NOT the geographical range that drew the attention
(C) The geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria was what
-->seems to say range coincided with malaria-illogical
(D) The geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria coinciding was what
--> In this sentence subject is plural (geographic ranges) hence singular "was" is incorrect
(E) It was that the geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria were coincident that
--> awkward and full of problems
(A) It was the coincidence of the geographic range of the sickle cell gene and malaria that
--> CORRECT
(B) It was the geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria that
--> seems to say range coincided with malaria-illogical
Also meaning is changed: also the coincidence should be the main subject as because it was the coincidence NOT the geographical range that drew the attention
(C) The geographic range of the sickle cell gene coinciding with malaria was what
-->seems to say range coincided with malaria-illogical
(D) The geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria coinciding was what
--> In this sentence subject is plural (geographic ranges) hence singular "was" is incorrect
(E) It was that the geographic ranges of the sickle cell gene and malaria were coincident that
--> awkward and full of problems
