Scientists studying a common type of bacteria have discovered that most bacteria of that type are in hibernation at a...

Skylar on October 26, 2019

@Lucie Happy to help!

This can be tricky because the two choices are so similar. The passage establishes the fact that bacteria "are extremely diverse," and because of this it concludes that "it is unlikely that most types of bacteria hibernate regularly." (B) restates this conclusion and is therefore correct. (C) also restates this conclusion, but is incorrect because it does so in terms of the conditional. It says "IF" bacteria are diverse, then the conclusion is true. However, the passage is not written in terms of a conditional relationship, so (C) is not an accurate expression of the passage's conclusion.

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