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BIOLOGY
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paleontology is
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the study of fossil plant
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the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals
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the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes
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the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -paleontology, also spelled palaeontology, scientific study of life of the geologic past that involves the analysis of plant and animal fossils, including those of microscopic size, preserved in rocks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Related sciences. Paleontology lies between biology and geology since it focuses on the record of past life, but its main source of evidence is fossils in rocks.
Detailed explanation-3: -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 Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.
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