Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Using the techniques employed by genetic engineering, a new species of microorganism has been developed by laboratory scientists to aid in cleaning up oil spills by digesting the oil.

Using the techniques employed by genetic engineering, a new species of microorganism has been developed by laboratory scientists to

Using the techniques employed by genetic engineering, a new species of microorganism that was developed by laboratory scientists will

Using the techniques of genetic engineering laboratory scientists have developed a new species of microorganism to

Employing the techniques of genetic engineering there has been a development laboratory scientists of a new species of microorganism that will

Employing the techniques of genetic engineering, a new species of microorganism that was developed by laboratory scientists will