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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ancestral state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, evolution, or anthropology to refer to the original condition or form from which a species or group has evolved.
Example: "The researchers traced the evolutionary lineage back to its ancestral state to better understand the adaptations that occurred over time."
Alternatives: "original condition" or "primitive state".
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Double fertilization - what was the ancestral state?
(A) Putative ancestral state in sphenopsids, (B) Equisetum sporangiophore.
Table 4 Most-likely ancestral state and state probability under constrained rates for Caryophyllales.
The presumptive ancestral state of the gene region is shown at the bottom.
Ancestral state reconstruction was performed using parsimony and maximum likelihood in Mesquite 3.0461.
Pie charts with asterisks indicate significant support for ancestral state reconstruction at that node.
These observations are consistent with groups B through F arising from group A, the ancestral state.
When they silenced these genes, the beak structure reverted back to its ancestral state.
In the group, the use of Endospermum is an ancestral state (a plesiomorphy).
Ancestral state reconstruction was also performed using MrBayes.
The human mutation I to V replicates the ancestral state, and the recurrence of this ancestral state has functional consequences [65].
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