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.
Common English Measures. Common Metric Measures. The metric system is also divided into different categories of measurement, but it has a base unit for each category. A base unit means that that is what the category is usually (but not always) measured in, and all the other terms of measurement in that category are built from the base unit.