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.
Other metric units can be defined in terms of the meter or kilogram. Fractions and multiples of the metric units are related to each other by the power of 10, allowing conversion from unit to a multiple of it simply by shifting a decimal point.