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Q. Sudden appearance of an ancestral character is

Jharkhand CECEJharkhand CECE 2014

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Sudden appearance of ancestral character is known as atavism. Sometimes few individuals are borne with some such abnormal features which are supposed to have been present in their remote ancestors, but lost during the course of evolution like appearance of tail in a new born baby.