GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used

First, we know that the list has to be parallel because both the entities have a common subject - the reason for cattle breeders using crossbreeding increasingly. So it's between choice C, D and E. Now we can eliminate C because it distorts the meaning and implies that because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics, breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding. In reality, per the meaning of the sentence - it is the opposite relationship that's true.
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