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Which of the following is correctly matched?(a) Darwin – Theory of myogenesis(b) Pasteur – Theory of pasteurization(c) Weismann – Theory of continuity of germplasm(d) Hugo de Vries – Use and disuse theoryThe question was asked in a job interview.I need to ask this question from Biological Evolution topic in section Evolution of Biology – Class 12

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The CORRECT choice is (c) Weismann – Theory of CONTINUITY of germplasm

Easy explanation: August Weismann opposed Lamarck’s theory of inheritance of acquired characters. He put forward this theory of germplasm. It states that characters related to the GERM cells are only INHERITED, whereas the SOMATIC cells are not.



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