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  • Question
  • Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characters was challenged by


  • Options
  • A. August Weismann
  • B. Hugo de Vries
  • C. Herbert Spencer
  • D. Carl Linnaeus

  • Correct Answer
  • Herbert Spencer 

    Explanation

    August Weismann cut off the tails of mice for 21 successive generations and still they produced generation after generation of only tailed young ones. So he concluded that acquired characters are not inherited.


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