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by leo » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:22 pm
Biologists believe that they have found one of the
substances that tell individual genes both when to
become active and when to remain
quiescent in the
earliest phases of an embryo's development.

(A) tell individual genes both when to become
active and when to remain
(B) tell individual genes both at which time they
should become active or should remain
(C) tells individual genes both when to become
active or remain
(D) tells individual genes both when to become
active or when to remain
(E) will tell an individual gene both about when it
should become active and remain


Answer Please and why?
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by jayhawk2001 » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:39 am
leo wrote:Biologists believe that they have found one of the
substances that tell individual genes both when to
become active and when to remain
quiescent in the
earliest phases of an embryo's development.

(A) tell individual genes both when to become
active and when to remain
(B) tell individual genes both at which time they
should become active or should remain
(C) tells individual genes both when to become
active or remain
(D) tells individual genes both when to become
active or when to remain
(E) will tell an individual gene both about when it
should become active and remain


Answer Please and why?
Vote for A.

Since we have "one of the <plural> that...", we have to use tell.
So, discard C and D.

B has "at which time". when is preferred.

E - about when... awkward.

A has good parallelism as well.
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by f2001290 » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:04 am
Adding to Jayhawk's description.

The right idiom here is "both X and Y". X and Y should be parallel
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by mv12 » Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:10 pm
+1 for A
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