June 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 24

Mammals cannot digest cellulose and therefore cannot directly obtain glucose from wood. Mushrooms can, however; and s...

Janelle on January 23, 2021

Why not Option B?

Is Answer B not correct because "Beta-..." is the actual anti-cancer component, and that answer B is stating that the mushroom itself is the anti-cancer component, not the Beta-...?

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Emil-Kunkin on March 16 at 02:39PM

B is wrong because there could be some other properties that mushrooms have that fight cancer. B is saying that this is the only way they fight cancer, but we have no reason to believe there isn't another possible causal pathway. I think this is more about the logic of B than about conflating the mushroom with the cancer fighting component.