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Ippo
Ippo asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 year ago

Grammatical questions.?

What is this "them" for?

and

What made them inconsequential to disease research?

I'll ask the Antecedent of "that" in the sentence below.

"Scientists had earlier concluded these regions held junk DNA that made them inconsequential to disease research.

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  • RE
    Lv 7
    1 year ago
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    'Them' refers to "regions." 'That' refers to "junk DNA."

  • reme_1
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    In place of they.

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