Biologists who study the sequences of organisms in the fossil record are
A
Taxonomists
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B
Palaeontologists
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C
Mixologists
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D
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 Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.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.