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Biologists who study the sequences of organisms in the fossil record are

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Taxonomists
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Palaeontologists
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Mixologists
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Systematists
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Solution

The correct option is B Palaeontologists
  • 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 Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.
  • Fossils, along with the comparative anatomy of present-day organisms, constitute the morphological, or anatomical, record. By comparing the anatomies of both modern and extinct species, paleontologists can infer the lineages of those species.
  • Hence Biologists who study the sequences of organisms in the fossil record are Paleontologists.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Paleontologists'.

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