Question

Study of fossils is known as
a. Palaeobotany
b. Palaeontology
c. Anatomy
d. Ornithology

Answer 1

Hint: Fossils have been visible and common throughout most of natural history, and so documented human interaction with them goes back as far as recorded history, or earlier. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record

Complete answer:
Palaeontology is known as the study of fossils. is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. They are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock. Palaeontologists use fossil remains to understand different aspects of extinct and living organisms. Individual fossils may contain information about an organism’s life and environment. Although paleontology became established around 1800, earlier thinkers had noticed aspects of the fossil record. The ancient Greek philosopher Xenophanes (570–480 BC) concluded from fossil sea shells that some areas of land were once under water.

Palaeobotany is the branch of biology dealing with the study of fossil plants and their evolutionary history. These fossils are found in the layers of earth and certain layers of rocks. This is the difficult branch of Botany in the respect that the fossil plants are difficult to obtain and they are rather scarce.

Anatomy is concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science which deals with the structural organization of living things. It can be divided into three broad areas: Human anatomy, zootomy, or animal anatomy, and phytotomy, which is plant anatomy.

Ornithology is the study of birds. Studies on birds have helped develop key concepts in biology including evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography, and conservation.

Note: Pseudofossils are visual patterns in rocks that are produced by geologic processes rather than biologic processes. They can easily be mistaken for real fossils. Some pseudofossils, such as geological dendrite crystals, are formed by naturally occurring fissures in the rock that get filled up by percolating minerals. Other types of pseudofossils are kidney ore (round shapes in iron ore) and moss agates, which look like moss or plant leaves.