{"id":"cb_question_bank:ad3b357a-3a12-400a-b307-b002a82073cd","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"ad3b357a-3a12-400a-b307-b002a82073cd","external_id":"d6d5fa78-74b9-4d37-a15f-af9162d592aa","ibn":null,"question_id":"d9d314d9","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"EOI","domain":"Expression of Ideas","skill_code":"SYN","skill":"Rhetorical Synthesis","difficulty":"M","score_band":4,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"The student wants to emphasize the fossil’s significance. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?","stimulus":"While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Pinnipeds, which include seals, sea lions, and walruses, live in and around water. Pinnipeds are descended not from sea animals but from four-legged, land-dwelling carnivores. Canadian paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski recently found a fossil with four legs, webbed toes, and the skull and teeth of a seal. Rybczynski refers to her rare find as a “transitional fossil.” The fossil illustrates an early stage in the evolution of pinnipeds from their land-dwelling ancestors.","stimulus_html":"

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

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The student wants to emphasize the fossil’s significance. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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Choice C is the best answer. The sentence effectively emphasizes the fossil’s significance, explaining that the fossil is rare and illustrates an early stage in the evolution of pinnipeds from their land-dwelling ancestors.

Choice A is incorrect. The sentence describes the fossil Rybczynski found; it doesn’t emphasize the fossil’s significance. Choice B is incorrect. The sentence mentions that a fossil resembling both pinnipeds and their ancestors was found; it doesn’t emphasize the fossil’s significance. Choice D is incorrect. The sentence notes a term used to describe the fossil Rybczynski found; it doesn’t emphasize the fossil’s significance. 

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Canadian paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski’s fossil has the skull and teeth of a seal, which, like sea lions and walruses, is a pinniped.

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Pinnipeds are descended from four-legged, land-dwelling carnivores; a fossil that resembles both was recently found.

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Having four legs but the skull and teeth of a seal, the rare fossil illustrates an early stage in the evolution of pinnipeds from their land-dwelling ancestors.

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A “transitional fossil” was recently found by paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski.

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