Appearance of ancestral characters in the new borns, such as tail, monstral face, gill slits, multiple mammae etc. are known as
Or
Presence of tail in a child is an example of

Options

A. Homologous
B. Analogous
C. Atavism
D. Vestigeal

Answer

C

Explanation

Atavism is the reappearance in an individual characteristics in which a phenotypic trait reappears in an organism.