Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
About half of all the oxygen we breathe is made near the surface of the ocean by phytoplankton that photosynthesize just like land-dwelling plants.
A team of scientists that includes Boston University experts has discovered they also produce oxygen on the seafloor.
The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms.
The discovery is a surprise considering oxygen is typically created by plants and organisms with help from the sun—not by rocks on the ocean floor.
The deep-sea rocks, called polymetallic nodules, don’t only host a surprising number of sea critters.
The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms.
The sentences focus on a new scientific discovery: oxygen is being produced on the ocean floor, challenging the common belief that oxygen is produced only through photosynthesis.
We see a link between sentences 5 and 2 - with the structure "dont only" and "they also". These two together introduce the discovery. 4 continues by describing why this discovery is surprising. 1 adds to the discussion in 4 by showing that most oxygen is through photosynthesis making the oxygen production described in 4 an anamoly.
Sentence 3 interrupts this flow because it talks about how the research was done instead of what was discovered, making it the odd one out.