Knewton Brutal Challenge (Verbal Edition) - Week 18

by Knewton, Aug 4, 2010

Written by Joanna Bersin.

The math was brutal last week; this week the verbal is just plain unforgiving.Explain your answer in the comments for your chance to win the shirt!

DNAbase "J", an unusual minor base that is thought to be the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and that, originally found in parasites belonging to the order of kinetoplastids, resembles thymine and was proven to control antigenic variation; to exist in the DNA of euglenids, evidence for a close relation between kinetoplastids and euglenids; and to cause certain severe diseases.

(A) DNA base "J", an unusual minor base that is thought to be the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and that, originally found in parasites belonging to the order of kinetoplastids, resembles thymine and was

(B) Thought to be the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes, originally found in parasites belonging to the order of kinetoplastids, resembling thymine, and unusual as a minor base is DNA base "J" for it has been

(C) Originally found in parasites belonging to the order of kinetoplastids, DNA base "J", an unusual minor base thought to be the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and resembling thymine, has been

(D) DNA base "J" is an unusual minor base thought to be the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and, resembling thymine, it was originally found in parasites belonging to the order of kinetoplastids and was

(E) Having been thought to be the only hyper-modified DNA base in eukaryotes and having resembled thymine, the unusual minor DNA base "J" was originally found in parasites belonging to the order of kinetoplastids, and