What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Exercise 41

A fossil is defined most broadly as:
A) the preserved pieces of hard parts (e.g., shell or bone) of extinct animals.
B) any preserved remnant or trace of an organism from the past.
C) the preserved bones of vertebrates.
D) a piece of an organism that has turned into rock.
E) the process of preservation of intact animal bodies.