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Why did the antifreeze protein initially give no special advantage to the earliest notothenioids? A. Many other types of fish had the same protein. B. The notothenioids were not living in subfreezing temperatures. C. The effect of the antifreeze protein was neutralized by other proteins. D. The antifreeze protein functioned only in the smallest notothenioids.