When an insect has been trapped in amber and is preserved, this forms what type of fossil?

Question

A) imprint

B) cast

C) mold

D) intact

Answer 1

Probably D, although the type of DNA mumbo-jumbo from "Jurassic Park" is probably beyond our current technology.

Let them refine things to where they can make a working chicken from a MkNugget, or a working cow from a MkBurger...then it's time to talk about it.

Answer 2

C) Mold Fossil

Answer 3

From the Palaeontological point of view they do not come in any of the options above =

Resin fossils



A Fossil resin (colloquially called amber) is a natural polymer found in many types of strata throughout the world, even the Arctic.

The oldest fossil resin dates to the Triassic, though most dates to the Tertiary.

The excretion of the resin by certain plants is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation for protection from insects and to seal wounds caused by damage elements.

Fossil resin ( Amber ) often contains other fossils called inclusions that were captured by the sticky resin.

These include bacteria, fungi, other plants, and animals.

Animal inclusions are usually small invertebrates, predominantly arthropods such as insects and spiders, and only extremely rarely a vertebrate such as a small lizard.

Preservation of inclusions can be exquisite, including small fragments of DNA.

Such fossils are are referred to as 'AMBER' or 'AMBER INCLUSIONS ' or Simply 'Fossil amber'

For details refer the following websites =

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&...

All said and done ; if the choice is from the four options only then it is  INTACT only!

Answer 4

Not a mold fossil -- that's what is formed when you have the imprint of an animal fossilized. In the case of insects in amber, you have an intact fossil.