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Explain Lamarcks theory of use and disuse of organs with suitable examples.

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He enunciated the law of use and disuse, which states that when certain organs become specially developed as a result of some environmental need, then that state of development is hereditary and can be passed on to progeny. E.g. Giraffe's long neck

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