Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.
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Atavistic
Synonyms for "atavistic" (71 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (21)
Determiner(1 words)
most animal instincts
Related words (35)
Noun(1 words)
primeval forest
Adjective(4 words)
Verb(1 words)
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More general
2 entriesbehavioral descriptorevolutionary attribute
More specific
4 entriesarchaic traitinstinctive driveprimitive traitprimitive urge
Collocations
6 entriesatavistic impulseatavistic instinctatavistic patternatavistic remnantatavistic tendencyatavistic trait
Inflections
2 entriesmore atavisticmost atavistic
Derivations
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.
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Reactivation of a dormant atavistic gene could account for the abnormal costocoracoid ligament in humans.
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They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred […]
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