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

• The tuatara is a reptile native to New Zealand.

• Though it resembles a lizard, it belongs to a distinct lineage more than 200 million years old.

• Its closest relatives went extinct around the time of the dinosaurs.

• Individual tuataras can live for more than 100 years.

The student wants to explain why the tuatara is of particular interest to evolutionary biologists.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

• A.

  The tuatara, a reptile native to New Zealand, can live for more than 100 years.

• B.

  Although it resembles a lizard, the tuatara is in fact native to New Zealand.

• C.

  The tuatara belongs to a lineage more than 200 million years old whose other members died out around the time of the dinosaurs, making it of great interest to evolutionary biologists.

• D.

  The tuatara resembles a lizard but can live for more than a century.