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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? In paleontology, the term 'Elvis taxon' gets applied to a newly identified living species that was once presumed to be extinct. Like an Elvis impersonator who might bear a striking resemblance to the late musical icon Elvis Presley himself, an Elvis taxon is not the real thing, ______ is a misidentified look-alike.