Contrast ancestral traits with derived traits

What will be an ideal response?


?Ancestral traits are characters inherited by a group of organisms from a remote ancestor and not
diagnostic of groups (lineages) that diverged after the character first appeared. Derived traits
refer to those characters that are modified from the ancestral condition and thus diagnostic of
particular evolutionary linages.

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