AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Paleontology is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.

Detailed explanation-2: -By studying fossils, evidence for evolution is revealed. The fossil record provides evidence for when organisms lived on Earth, how species evolved, and how some species have gone extinct. Use the resources below to answer the questions that follow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fossils help scientists understand what life was like millions of years ago. Some fossils provide evidence of living things that have gone extinct, which means they no longer found alive anywhere on earth today.

Detailed explanation-4: -Paleontologists have recovered and studied the fossil remains of many thousands of organisms that lived in the past. This fossil record shows that many kinds of extinct organisms were very different in form from any now living.