Question

Key point of Lamarck's view about organic evolution is that every offspring

• A. Is similar to its parent.
• B. Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation.
• C. Shows struggle for existence.
• D. Repeats phylogeny in its ontogeny.

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation.

According to Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characters, the skills or morphological changes acquired by an organism during its lifetime will be passed on to the next generation.

So, the correct answer is'Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation'