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What is the answer to this describes a organism whose tissues are completely replaced by minerals?
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An organism whose tissues are completely replaced by minerals is a fossil.
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What is the difference between petrifaction and permineralization?
Permineralization is the process of fossilization where mainly water mineral deposits take the form of the organism. The minerals harden with time and pressure from over laying deposits turning into rock. Petrification happens when silica binds with celulose of a plant and turns into stone often retaining the microstructure of the plant.
How do remains become petrified fossils?
Petrification occurs when body parts of the organism are replaced by minerals dissolved in ground water. For example, a buried tree may have its wood replaced over millions of years by silica that is dissolved in the surrounding ground water.
What astronomical term gradually replaced the cumbersome gravitationally completely collapsed object?
blackhole
What is similar about mold and cast fossils and petrified wood?
Both copy the shape of its ancient organisms.a MOLD is a hollow area in sediment in the shape of an organism or part of an organism.a mold forms when the hars part of the organism,such as a shell,is buried in sediment.Later, water carrys dissolved minerals and sediment there,the result is a cast. A CAST is a solid copy of the shapes of organisms.a cats is the opposite of a mold.both mold and cast preserved details of the animals structure
How many cells does a organism have?
The number of cells in an organism constantly changes. Cells die and are replaced by new cells all the time. As I type, cells on my fingertips die, fall off and new cells replace them. There are far too many cells to count in any organism, and they are constantly changing. Here's an interesting fact- if one of the cells on the tip of your nose was the size of a football pitch, your head would be the same size (roughly) as the world!
What is an organism's organic tissue most likely replaced with when an organism is petrified?
When an organism is petrified its organic tissue is most likely replaced with minerals.
What is an exact copy of an original organism in which the hard parts have been penetrated and replaced by minerals?
A fossil.
How does a organism become petrified?
The cell contents are replaced over a long period of time by minerals.
What is an example of petritrified?
Petritrified Fossil- a fossil formed when minerals replaced all or part of an organism.
What is the difference between petrifaction and permineralization?
Permineralization is the process of fossilization where mainly water mineral deposits take the form of the organism. The minerals harden with time and pressure from over laying deposits turning into rock. Petrification happens when silica binds with celulose of a plant and turns into stone often retaining the microstructure of the plant.
How does fossilisation protect somthing?
During fossilisation, living cells are replaced by minerals. This preserves the physical appearance (but not the original organism)
A fossil was once a living organism but its tissues have now been replaced by minerals and it no longer exhibits most properties of life except for?
organization
When the remains of an organism are replaced by minerals.?
In geology, petrification or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals. So yeah the answer is petrification
Damaged cells of an organism are usually by mitosis?
Replaced.
When will books be completely replaced?
I hope books will never be completely replaced. There is a place for books along side new technology.
What can animals not be preserved in as fossils?
Animals are not preserved as fossils. Fossils are imprints of the organism where the body has been replaced by rock minerals. They are most usually found in sedimentary rocks, occasionally in metamorphic rock but never in igneous rock.
How are permineralization and replacement similar?
Minerals such as silca, iron, and pyrite are critical for fossilization in both processes. However, in replacement, the hard structures of the organism dissolve and are replaced with minerals. During replacement, the original microscopic details, such as the inside of a bone, are partially or totally destroyed. ~Follow me on Twitter: @jennholguinxo I follow back!
