Reappearance of an ancestral trait, after several generations is known as?

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QUESTION

Reappearance of an ancestral trait, after several generations is known as?

OPTIONS

(A) Atavism
(B) Autogamy
(C) Asynapsis
(D) Amphidiploid

ANSWER

(A) Atavism

EXPLANATION

Atavism is the reappearance of a characteristic resembling an ancestral condition after it has been absent for several generations. Autogamy means self-fertilization, asynapsis is failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis, and an amphidiploid is a polyploid formed by combining chromosome sets from different species.

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