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Medium Reading and Writing · Expression of Ideas · Rhetorical Synthesis · MCQ

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.

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

  1. A

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

  2. B

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

  3. C

    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.

  4. D

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

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