Key term for Edexcel GCSE Biology, used in Evolution.
A fossil that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group, showing evidence of gradual evolutionary change.
Transitional fossil appears in Edexcel GCSE Biology revision content for Natural Selection and Genetic Modification, especially Evolution and Human Evolution Evidence.
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