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Q.Who disproved Lamarck’s Theory of acquired characters? How?

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Step 1. Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characters claimed that traits gained during an individual's lifetime (such as an injury or a lost body part) could be passed on to its offspring.

Step 2. Weismann tested this directly: he amputated the tails of mice and bred them, then repeated this amputate-and-breed cycle across twenty successive generations.

Step 3. In every single generation, all the mice born still had full-length tails, despite twenty generations of parents having had their tails removed before breeding. …

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