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

Is similar to its parents.

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Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation.

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Shows struggle for existence.

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Repeats phylogeny in its ontogeny.

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Solution

The correct option is B Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation.
Lamarck gave the theory of Inheritance of acquired character. According to which characters acquired by an organism during it's life are inherited by the next generation.
So, the correct answer is 'Inherits characters acquired by the parental generation.'

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Characters that are transmitted from parents to offspring during reproduction show

(a) only similarities with parents
(b) only variations with parents
(c) both similarities and variations with parents
(d) neither similarities nor variations

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