Sentence Correction

Hydrocarbons, with which flies perfume themselves in species specific blends, are known to be important in courtship, [u]and apparently this assists flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates to distinguish their own species from that of[/u] others.

A) and apparently this assists flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates to distinguish their own species from that of
B) and apparently this assists flies when they taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates in distinguishing their own species from those of
C) which apparently assists flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates in being able to distinguish their own species from
D) apparently assisting flies to taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates to distinguish their own species from those of
E) apparently assisting flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates in distinguishing their own species from

A assists wrong
B assists wrong
C which wrong
D those unclear
E correct

A....."Species from THAT" is wrong...ignore it.
B...looks good...they refers to flies correctly, species...those combination is correct, and "this assists" correctly refers to the whole phenomena.

C...use of which is wrong.
D and E...what is assisting? ignore.

I will go with B

Danielle ..looking forwrd to your inputs

The ans is E, i went with D. after rereading the question I see those is ambiguous.

Something happened to my first post on this one... must have not loaded.

I will weigh in waaaay late here and say that E is the answer also!

A and B -- 'and apparently' is incorrect as 'and' is uneccessary.
C -- 'which' is incorrect
D -- 'to taste' is the problem with this one. hydrocarbons assist whichever flies taste them, they don't assist the flies to actually taste hydrocarbons.
E -- correct

Danielle wrote:Something happened to my first post on this one... must have not loaded.

I will weigh in waaaay late here and say that E is the answer also!

A and B -- 'and apparently' is incorrect as 'and' is uneccessary.
C -- 'which' is incorrect
D -- 'to taste' is the problem with this one. hydrocarbons assist whichever flies taste them, they don't assist the flies to actually taste hydrocarbons.
E -- correct

Thanks!!!