Because all animals belonging to Felidaeâs sister taxa, Viverridae, have long tails, scientists could infer that this character state represents the ancestral trait. Some domestic cats display a rosette pattern on their coats.
measurement system: The metric system of measurement. For a time, the international prototype metre and kilogram were based, for convenience, on the archive standards rather than directly on actual measurement of Earth.
The metric system is a measurement system based on units of tens. The prefix of the word indicates how many units the measurement represents. For example, deci equals one-tenth, deca equals 10, centi equals 100 and milli equals 1,000.