Siamese cats are known and characterized on the basis of the regions that are light or dark on the part of the body of these cats as according the cooler part of the body.
It is influenced by the enzyme that is active due to low temperature that leads to the formation of the dark pigment in the cooler area and in the part of the body that are higher in temperature are lighter due to inactivity of the enzyme.
Any characteristic change which is transfer to the new species from ancestors but is different from the original character. It will be called as derived character.
But if the same character is transfer from ancestor to the new species this will called as ancestral character.
