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by rohit9359 » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:20 am
Q. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending---

OA is [spoiler](A)[/spoiler]. Explain please.
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by gmat740 » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:19 am
spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.

Parallelism.

Spawned ==> Extended
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by ssilver0210 » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:32 pm
The mushrooms and root-like tentacles are extending. The and is unnecessary.
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