Name the law that states ‘embryonic development of an animal repeats the embryonic stages of ancestors’.
A
Florkin’s law
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B
Law of segregation
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C
Biogenetic law
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D
Anaximander’s law
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Solution
The correct option is C Biogenetic law Haeckel gave the biogenetic law stating “Ontogeny repeats phylogeny”. Ontogeny is the life history of an organism and phylogeny is the evolutionary history of race.
Anaximander considered the sun, moon and stars as rings made of air.
Florkin laid emphasis on the importance of evolution in order to understand the difference in metabolism and chemical constituents between different organisms.
Law of segregation states that the pair of alleles segregate from each other during meiosis.