Genes are compared with pearls. "Moving" is a modifier, not a verb. Therefore, it cannot be treated as parallel with "jump." Therefore, answer B is correct.

Is there any way to identify such kind of modifiers??

Kasia@MasterGMAT wrote:Genes are compared with pearls. "Moving" is a modifier, not a verb. Therefore, it cannot be treated as parallel with "jump." Therefore, answer B is correct.

"genes can jump" is not parallel to
"moving mysteriously from..."....Phrase.
So, "like Pearls moving mysteriously from ..." looks fine because like is used
with a phrasal expression and not a clause as shown in the comparison.

The first and most obvious "split" here is between like and as. Like is used to compare nouns; as is used to compare clauses (phrases that include verbs).

In this sentence, we are comparing genes to pearls. These are nouns, so we want to use like, not as. Eliminate A, C, and E.

Between B and D, there are two differences.
1) "pearls moving" vs. "pearls do that move"
If we say "like pearls do that move" - what is the "do" referring to? It could be referring to the "jump" but the rest of the sentence tells us the pearls are moving... We don't need both.

2) "one necklace to another" vs. "one necklace to others"
This is just an idiom issue. When you say "one [something] to..." you finish that up with "another." I moved from one place to another, not from one place to others.

see https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/sc- ... mcclintock