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by AbeNeedsAnswers » Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:41 pm
Researchers now regard interferon as not a single substance, but it is rather a biological family of complex molecules that play an important, though not entirely defined, role in the immune system.

A. as not a single substance, but it is rather a biological family of complex molecules that play
B. as not a single substance but as a biological family of complex molecules playing
C. not as a single substance but as a biological family of complex molecules that play
D. not to be a single substance but rather a biological family of complex molecules playing
E. not as a single substance but instead as being a biological family of complex molecules that play

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by elias.latour.apex » Sat Aug 19, 2017 1:51 am
The core of the sentence involves the idiom not X but Y where X and Y are reasonably parallel. The original sentence is not parallel.

Only sentence (C) offers the parallel not as X but as Y.
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