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Hi could someone please explain why E?
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The two studies have different basis of concluding as highlighted in the blue text. How these two are related helps resolve the situation.
A recent study concludes that prehistoric birds, unlike modern birds, were cold-blooded. This challenges a widely held view that modern birds descended from warm-blooded birds. The conclusion is based on the
existence of growth rings in prehistoric birds’ bodily structures, which are thought to be found only in cold-blooded animals. Another study, however, disputes this view. It concludes that prehistoric birds had
dense blood vessels in their bones, which suggests that they were active creatures and therefore had to be warm-blooded.
Which one of the following, if true, would most help to resolve the dispute described above in favor of one party to it?
(A)
Some modern warm-blooded species other than birds have been shown to have descended from cold-blooded species. - WRONG. Nothing as far as resolution is considered.
(B) Having growth rings is
not the only physical trait of cold-blooded species. - WRONG. Then what!! It does nothing like A.
(C) Modern birds
did not evolve from prehistoric species of birds. - WRONG. Totally goes against the passage.
(D) Dense blood vessels are
not found in all warm-blooded species. - WRONG. Similarities alike to A. Doing nothing.
(E) In some cold-blooded species the
gene that is responsible for growth rings is
also responsible for dense blood vessels - CORRECT. Altough POE helps, this choice does sets things right. Exception case this may be. However, it does resolve the ambiguity.
Answer E.