Evolution Question 105

105. Theory of inheritance of acquired characters was given by

(a) Wallace

(b) Lamarck

(c) Darwin

(d) De Vries

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Answer : b

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(b) One of the first attempts to explain the mechanism of evolution was made by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. His theory was Inheritance of Acquired Characters. The theory states that the characters acquired during life time are passed on to the progeny and then to subsequent generations and new species are produced.