Professor: Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies and other profit-driven ... ...

Professor: Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies and other profit-driven institutions provide nearly all of the funding for the chemistry department’s research. Moreover, unless we can secure more funding for basic science research, it is highly unlikely that any significant advances in basic research will come out of the department. Thus, without increased funding from sources other than profit-driven institutions, the chemistry department is unlikely to gain the prestige that only achievements in basic science research confer. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the professor’s argument relies?
(A) If the chemistry department secures more funding for basic science research, its members will make significant advances in basic science.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in Oct 2012 LSAT (PT67): Logical Reasoning B

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