define fossil explain importance of fossils as proof of evolution
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define fossil:
Fossils are the preserved remains, or traces of remains, of ancient organisms. Fossils are not the remains of the organism itself! They are rocks. A fossil can preserve an entire organism or just part of one. Bones, shells, feathers, and leaves can all become fossils.
explain importance of fossils as proof of evolution:
Fossils are important evidence for evolution because they show that life on earth was once different from life found on earth today.
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- Any preserved remains, impression, or trace of organisms that lived in the past is called fossil.
- Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals, etc.
- The time of death of a plant or animal can be calculated by measuring the radioactivity of C14 and ratio of C14 to C12 (nonradioactive carbon) present in their body of the fossil organism. By determining the age fossil. This called carbon dating.
- Once the age of fossil been determined, it is easy to gather the information about other past lived organisms.
- It can be concluded that vertebrates have been slowly originated from invertebrates.
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