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Lamarck proposed the theory of acquired inheritance.

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The correct option is A

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The French biologist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck proposed that the driving force behind evolution was the inheritance of acquired characters. It stated that the organisms that undergo physical changes to survive in an environmental condition pass on these desirable changes to their offsprings.

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