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The reason that the word cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms is because it is derived from the ancient Greek klados meaning branch.
A. The reason that the word cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms is because
B. The reason that the word cladistics is a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms is that
C. The word cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the evolutionary ancestry and relationships of groups of organisms because
D. The word cladistics was chosen to refer to a system for the classification of species that is based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms because
E. The word cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms and
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The reason that the word cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms is because it is derived from the ancient Greek klados meaning branch.A. The reason that the word
cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms is because
This answer is stylistically flawed. Using both the reason and because is redundant.
What helps us identify this question as a Redundancy question as well as identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:
B. The reason that the word
cladistics is a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms is that
Although this answer choice corrects the original Redundancy by eliminating the word because, it is illogical. The subject of the sentence is the word cladistics, not the actual system of cladistics. We cannot say that a word or a term is the same as what it refers to (the word cladistics is a system...). However, a word can refer to/define/describe a situation or object.
What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:
The word/term... (it) is...
Whenever we see this Stop Sign, we know that the topic that the question checks is pronouns, specifically using refers to/defines/describes after the word/term (and not is).C. The word
cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the evolutionary ancestry and relationships of groups of organisms because
Using both the reason and because is redundant, and this answer choice corrects the Redundancy mistake by only using because.D. The word
cladistics was chosen to refer to a system for the classification of species that is based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms because
Although this answer choice corrects the original Redundancy error by eliminating the reason that, it replaces a system of species classification with the stylistically flawed and overly wordy phrase a system for the classification of species that is....E. The word
cladistics was chosen to refer to a system of species classification based on the relationships and evolutionary ancestry of groups of organisms and
Although this answer choice corrects the original Redundancy error by eliminating the reason that which is unnecessary when we have the word because, unfortunately, because was also eliminated and therefore changed the original meaning of the sentence, which had a cause - effect relationship. We cannot change the original meaning. It would have been enough to get rid of either the reason that or because but not both.
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10 Aug 2023, 01:30
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