Individuals with a particular trait may increase in a population when that trait gets acquired during the individual’s lifetime. Explain

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The trait gets acquired due to the process of natural selection if it provides any survival advantage. Those characters brings changes in the organism and hence are acquired for the lifetime. However, they do not bring any changes to the germ cells and are not inherited.

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