1) Biological reversion 2) French word used in English 3) Recurrence 4) Return 5) Reversion 6) Reversion to remote ancestry 7) Reversion to the primitive 8) Reversion to type 9) Science fiction music 10) Throwback 11) Throwback characteristic
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1) Throwback
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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. One way is when genes for previously existing phenotypical features are preserved in DNA, and these become expressed through a mutation th...
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reversion to early or ancestral type
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• (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two. • (n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the origina...
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Re-emergence of ancestral characteristics; a genetic throwback.
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Re-emergence of ancestral characteristics; a genetic throwback.
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The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form. ... <biology> The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or t...
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(at´ә-viz-әm) apparent inheritance of characters from remote ancestors. adj., atavis´tic., adj.
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the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some distant ancestor that have not been present in intervening generations, such as a hand like a hairy paw.
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Heredity
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At'a·vism noun [ Latin atavus an ancestor, from avus a grandfather.] (a) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form. (b)
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Type: Term Pronunciation: at′ă-vizm Definitions: 1. The appearance in an individual of characteristics presumed to have been present in some remote ancestor; reversion to an earlier biologic type, a throwback.
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In biology, atavism is the tendency to reproduce the ancestral type in animals or plants which have become considerably modified by breeding or cultivation; the reversion of a descendant to some peculiarity of a more or less remote ancestor.
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n] - a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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reversion 1 throwback noun a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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In genetics, the reappearance of a characteristic not apparent in the immediately preceding generations; in psychology, the manifestation of primitive forms of behaviour
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· the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. · an individual embodying such a reversion.
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a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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[Intelligent words] a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
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