The evidence supporting the idea that modern birds and reptiles share a common ancestor is that feathers are a derived characteristic that first evolved in reptiles. Feathers represent an evolutionary derived trait.
In evolutionary biology, an autapomorphy is a distinctive phenotypic trait referred to as a derived trait, which is unique to a particular group/taxon.
The derived traits are phenotypic features that arise during the evolution of a particular taxonomic group.
These traits (derived traits) differ from the phenotypic trait of the ancestor of the group.
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It keeps the water in the plant, so it keeps the water from evaporating and killing the plant
Based on the Scenario, the process is described as Mitosis
During this process , chromosomes in a cell nucleus will be separated into two identical set of chromosomes (which make it four) and will end up in their own nucleus
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