To be able to compare the results to a sample without any of the independent variable added.
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Fossils can give information about past environmental conditions by showing the type of animal they belonged to. If a scientist found a whale fossil in a desert, he/she could assume that the desert was once an ocean as whales only live in oceans. If someone found a fossil of a lizard that inhabited trees, in the middle of the ocean, then he/she could assume that the ocean didn't exist at one point and instead, there might have been a forest in it's place.
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(D), amount of time and area of physical contact between the substances
Viruses are classified as non-living. Although they have DNA or RNA as genetic information, a protein coat, and some, a lipidic envelope, they do not have the machinery to multiply on their own and therefore are non-living. <span>A </span>virus<span> is simply an </span>infectious agent<span> that, through different ways, many times only by releasing its genetic information inside the cell, </span>replicates<span> using other living-cells machinery</span><span>. Viruses are able to infect any type of cell.</span>