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  4. Sudden appearance of an ancestral character is known as:

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Q. Sudden appearance of an ancestral character is known as:

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Atavism or reversion is the appearance of those ancestral characteristic in an organism or in the organism of group, which do not occur normally e.g., cervical fistula in man, tail etc.