Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight

Choice D woefully misses the conjunction that bridges Minnesota with the un-underlined part of the sentence, resulting in a debate as to what purpose the second part serves after separated from the main part, by a semicolon.

In B, doesn’t the pronounwhere , by virtue of its placement, modify population, which is wrong?

Though wordy, by usingwhere for both the parts of the sentence and also by employing the more customarypopulation of wolves rather than the oddwolf population, E seems