Which of the following terms means "a trait that is different from any traits of
common ancestors"?
O
A. Detrimental mit
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B. Adaptive trait
O
C. Ancestral trait
O
D. Derived trait

D. Derived Trait

You take an ancestor and you "extract" a trait and you put that trait into the next ancestor meaning you "derive" the trait.

unicellular organisms, like bacteria, are able to perform all life functions within one single cell. multicellular organisms need many different types of cells to carry out the same life processes. each of these special types of cells has a different structure that it perform a specific function.

it is because according to the process , scientific inquiry is a process with many steps because each step occurs to the scientist and if you just skip a step there would be no steps to scientific inquiry.