Answer: Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy
Relative dating is a method of determination of age, in which one object or organism is compared with the other object or organism found in the heap of strata. It is a method for determining the relative order of the past events, without stating the absolute age.
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology that studies the relative position of the sediments and rocks in the strata with respect to the geological timescale. Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which deals with the relative aging of fossils with respect to the strata in which these are found defining a particular period of geological time scale.
Holistic refers to anything that consists of parts that cannot be analyzed as singular units since only as a whole do they have a meaning. When it comes to people, it is used in medicine when you treat the person as a whole, not just the disease.
All animals have all the characteristics of life unless there dead.
