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No, acquired characteristics, such as building muscles through exercise, can not be passed onto the progeny and thus allele can not change over time in populations from acquired characteristics. The are not " hard " heritability.

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Acquired characteristics lead to evolution?

Acquired characteristics acquired during an organism's lifetime cannot be passed on to offspring according to modern evolutionary theory. Evolution is driven by genetic variations that are inherited and can lead to changes in a population over time through natural selection.


What is true Individuals are constantly evolving. Populations are constantly evolving. Evolution involves descent with modification. Acquired characteristics lead to evolution.?

Individuals are constantly evolving - False. Populations are constantly evolving - True. Evolution involves descent with modification - True. Acquired characteristics lead to evolution - False.


Do acquired characteristics lead to evolution?

Not in the sense you mean. The blacksmith who builds large muscles does not bequeath those muscles to his offspring, a hereditary condition of populations evolving. There are some acquired characteristics, such as the methalyation of genes seen in imprinting, that are epigenetic in nature. Google epigenetics.


Why doesn't evolution occur through the inheritance of acquired characteristics?

Because acquired characteristics are not programmed in the DNA; only characterisitics which are genetically programmed are passed on and inherited.


Theory of Evolution by Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics?

This is the theory of Lamarck and it is long refuted.


Are acquired characteristics evidence of evolution?

No, unless the mechanisms by which these traits are acquired are inherited, subject to variation, and found in patterns of nested hierarchies.


Jean Lamarck?

French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)


How do organisms change over time?

Organisms change over time through a process called evolution. Evolution occurs through the accumulation of genetic mutations and natural selection, which drives changes in a population's characteristics over generations. These changes can lead to the development of new traits that help organisms better adapt to their environment.


Which of the foWhich of the following would describe Lamarck and ideas about evolutionllowing would describe Lamarck and ideas about evolution?

Lamarck proposed the idea of "inheritance of acquired characteristics," suggesting that organisms can pass on traits acquired during their lifetime to their offspring. He believed that these acquired traits could lead to evolutionary change over time. However, his ideas have largely been discredited in favor of Darwin's theory of natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution.


Whose theory of evolution conflict with Darwin's theory of evolution?

French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution conflicted with Darwin's theory. Lamarck proposed that acquired characteristics could be passed down to offspring, while Darwin's theory emphasized natural selection and gradual change over generations.


Has Lamarck's theory of evolution been proved?

Scientists do not prove things. Lamarck's theory is long refuted as acquired characteristics and the use and disuse concepts are not explanations for evolution of populations.


What are the differences of evolution and theory of evolution?

Larmark's theory was based on the idea that organisms inherited characteristics that they had acquired in life - so, if you have a scar your offspring will have scars. Darwin's theory assumed that offspring inherited characteristics from their parents, but they were more likely to survive to breed if there was advantage to those characteristics.