Recent discoveries of fossils that surprisingly retain some coloration are the result of the preservation of:

A. preserved proteins.
B. preserved DNA in the nucleus of a cell.
C. preserved lipids such as cholesterol.
D. cellular melanosomes that produced
pigments.


D

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