Multiple Choice
One way of establishing whether a character of an extant species is ancestral or derived is to locate a/an ______ and if the character occurs in both,it is likely ________.
A) fossil,ancestral
B) fossil,derived
C) sister species,derived
D) outgroup,ancestral
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