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Criticism of Lamarckism

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One Scientist cuts the tails of rats for one parental generation. Will the offsprings have normal tails or not? Write your option.

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When a scientist cuts the tail of rats for any generations the offsprings still have a proper tail. This is because the somatically acquired characters are not passed onto the germ cells. This experiment was instrumental in rejecting the theory of acquired characters by Lamarck.

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