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Question
A body has been born with a small tail. It is the case exhibiting
Options
A.retrogressive evolution
B.mutation
C.atavism
D.metamorphosis
Solution
Atavism is the repeappearance of ancestral and not patrental charaters in an organisms which do not occur normally. Like tail is absent in man, but occassionally a human baby is born with a short fleshy tail. Ababy has been born with a small tail. It is the case exhibiting atavism. Atavism is the sudden appearance of some ancestor characters which are lost during cours of evolution.
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