Sentence Correction

As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now believe that all of the information encoded in 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely three percent of the cell’s DNA.

(A) 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely
(B) 50,000 to 100,000 of the human cell’s different genes are contained in a mere
(C) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in human cells are contained in merely
(D) 50,000 to 100,000 of human cell’s different genes is contained in merely
(E) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere

OA is E

Please explain.

IMO E.

a , b & c has "are contained". Information is singular.

D "50,000 to 100,000 of human cell’s different genes" is not structured properly. Numbers are pointing to genes.

Hence E.

Subject-Verb disagreement. Only D & E solve this problem. D changes the meaning & is awkwardly constructed. So, E is the winner.

Good question!

I got this wrong because of the article "the".

At first I thought (E) changed the meaning of the original sentence with the addition of "the" in the front, but since this question is specifying a range the original meaning remains intact.

If the sentence gave a quant value then E would've changed the meaning.

e.g.
(A) 50,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely
Implies there may be more than 50,000 genes

(E) the 50,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere
Implies there are only 50,000 genes

This is what threw me off and caused me to eliminate C & E.

(A) 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely-the information ………………………is contained merely……… OUT-
(B) 50,000 to 100,000 of the human cell’s different genes are contained in a mere -the information ………………………is contained merely……… OUT-
(C) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in human cells are contained in merely -the information ………………………is contained merely……… OUT-
(D) 50,000 to 100,000 of human cell’s different genes is contained in merely- the information encoded in ……human cell’s different genes is , this sentence is ambigious looks like genes are contained but the passage says encoded information is contained OUT-
(E) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere


Please correct me if it is incorrect.