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Ancestral traits are things that you receive from people other than your parents or grandparents. They mainly consist of things like eye color or hair color. Sometimes even skin color. Basically, ancestral traits are traits that you inherit from someone who is not directly related to you, someone older than a couple generations. So lets say your great great great grandmother had grey eyes, and you were born and had grey eyes. And if no one like your mother or grandparents had grey eyes, it would be called an ancestral trait.
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What is the difference between derived trait and ancestral trait?
Derived traits are traits that appeared in the most recent common ancestor of the group and was passed on to it's decedents. Ancestral traits are inherited directly from the ancestor
What is a traits that perform a similar function but arise from different ancestral traits are called?
Analogs.
What two types of structures do transitional fossils show?
devried traits and ancestral traits
What statement about ancestral traits is true?
They are shared by all members of the group.
What is an example of a derived trait?
Ancestral traits were traits retained by a species from a common ancestor. Examples would be the wings on birds and five fingers on the human hand.
What can you get from your ancestors?
Physical characteristics and personality traits. Look up "ancestral legacies" and similar phrases for much more.
What does a chladogram show about evolution?
By showing the evolutionary relationships and emergency of ancestral and derived traits in taxa of organisms. Nested hierarchies of relatedness in organisms.
Is a cladogram a branched diagram showing between groups based on ancestral and derived traits?
A cladogram is a branched diagram showing between groups based on ancestral and derived traits. A cladogram is a good way to show the relationship between a human hand, a bats wings, and a dolphins flipper.
What is the antonym for atavism?
The antonym for atavism is progression or advancement, as atavism refers to the reversion to ancestral traits or characteristics, while progression signifies moving forward or evolving.
Can you give me a sentence using the word ancestral?
people have forgotten their ancestral values. They have become robots nowadays.
What are traits also known as?
Example. All humans share bipedalism, type of teeth,brain size, speech and all other human characteristics we share with our immediate common ancestor, such as the Cro-Magnon man. In contrast, ancestral characteristics are thing we share with all ancestors, such as a vertebral column.
What is ancestral use a sentence?
give me example for word ancestral
