Reverting to Ancestral Quality
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from All Things Water, Group 1284, Puzzle 4 (Arctic Ocean).
Question is: Reverting to Ancestral Quality
and the answer is: ATAVISTIC
Word Meaning:
ATAVISTIC — (biology) Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
Definitions from Wiktionary.