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Who disproved the idea of inheritance of acquired traits using tailless mice?
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August Weismann
but actually this theory of his was wrong.......
Lamarck's idea was more appropriate...........
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Which of Lamarck's ideas turned out to be true Which turned out to be false?
Right: adaptions to environment wrong: acquired traits are passed on
Which idea did lamarck propose that was rejected by his fellow scientists?
That organisms pass on traits acquired in their lifetimes. It was rejected in favour of Darwinian evolution, in which species and not individuals evolve, but Larmarckism is valid to a point where epigenetics is concerned.
How would vestigial traits be explained if evolution occurred via inheritance of acquired characters as proposed by Lamarck?
as a change in an individual's phenotype in response to an environmental challenge
Why is lamarck's theory not supported by the theory of natural selection?
Lamarck thought that traits organisms acquired during their lifetime would be passed on to offspring. He believed that traits were determined by use or disuse. However, acquired traits cannot be passed on to offspring; only traits determined by DNA can
What role did Lamarck think acquired characteristics played in evolution?
Lamarck put two ideas into his theory of evolution thought to be true in his time. 1. Use and disuse - people lose characteristics they don't use and keep the other ones . 2. Individuals inherit the traits of their ancestors. So instead of the environment selecting traits, he said that the species selected the traits.
Does inheritance of acquired characteristics express the concept of natural selection?
No. Natural selection is the differential reproductive success of varying inherited traits. Acquired traits do little to affect the inheritance of traits, except through epigenetics.
Is inheritance of acquired traits part of lamarks theory?
Yes. Lamarck hypothesised that living beings acquired traits in their life times by power of will or use and disuse and passed it onto their offspring.
Stated that inheritance of acquired traits caused change in a species over time?
Lamarck thought acquired traits were past on, but he was prover wrong by Darwin and his natural selection idea.
What is the base of lamarck theory?
The two concepts of the inheritance of acquired characteristics plus use and disuse of traits.
A giraffe that stretches its neck longer by reaching for food and then passes this long-necked trait on to offspring is an example of?
Acquired Trait
Why are required traits not directly related to the process of evolution?
Acquired traits. Because evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms and acquired traits, such as muscles built by working out, can not be inherited genetically ( by alleles ) so are not " hard " inheritance. Some things like methylation of genes are passed epigenetically, but this does not quite qualify as acquired traits.
Which of Lamarck's ideas turned out to be true Which turned out to be false?
Right: adaptions to environment wrong: acquired traits are passed on
Which idea did lamarck propose that was rejected by his fellow scientists?
That organisms pass on traits acquired in their lifetimes. It was rejected in favour of Darwinian evolution, in which species and not individuals evolve, but Larmarckism is valid to a point where epigenetics is concerned.
How would vestigial traits be explained if evolution occurred via inheritance of acquired characters as proposed by Lamarck?
as a change in an individual's phenotype in response to an environmental challenge
What is the appearance of inheritance of traits?
phenotype
What is Mendel's Theory?
Gregor Mendel was a biologist who studied the inheritance of traits. His laws for this inheritance are combined in Mendelian inheritance, which states that some alleles are dominant and as such some traits are dominant.
Why are only inherited traits not acquired ones involed in the process of natural selection?
Because the idea of acquired traits states that simple organisms could arise from nonliving matter and could form complex forms of living, which is not supported anymore by modern scientific study of mechanisms of inheritance.
