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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is Atavism?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Is it reappearance of Ancestral's characters in an offspring?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology, an atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before. Atavisms can occur in several ways.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Several ways? What are these ways?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology, an atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before. Atavisms can occur in several ways.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology, an atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before. Atavisms can occur in several ways.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Several ways to answer this question are: 1. Either Skittles_5201 and munna14 have copied straightaway what Karendiaz123 posted above. OR 2. Either Munna has copied Skittles and Karendiaz both straightway. OR 3. They all three just googled up the answer and just copied and pasted from Google straightaway..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

you all three wrote : Atavism can occur in several ways.. May I know what are those several ways in which it can occur?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i den copy i just asked my biology teacher

OpenStudy (anonymous):

*didnt

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