Question

Question 19
From the list given below, select the character which can be acquired but not inherited

(a) Colour of eye
(b) Colour of skin
(c) Size of body
(d) Nature of hair

Answer 1

(c) Size of body

Colour of the eye, the colour of skin and nature of hair are the phenotypic(observable traits) characters related to alleles(pairs of genes ). But the size of the body doesn’t have any specific allele in the organism. So body size can be acquired but not inherited.