Atavism is resemblence of features to –
Correct Answer: Grandfather
Description: Ref:Synopsis of Forensic medicine and toxicology (K.S.Narayan Reddy) 28th edition, page no.209 Atavism: The child does not resembles its grandparents. This is due to inheritance of charateristics from remote instead of from immediate ancestors, due to a chance recombination of gene which failed to express in the father, but not in child. Any mental or physical characteristics or tendency or disease peculiar to a remote ancestor may be inherited. mutation is a change in the child.
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