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the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common sense on its side. In fact, the "inheritance of acquired characters" continued to ...

INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED TRAITS: FROM LAMARCK TO NOW Although theories of epigenetic inheritance have drawn new interest in the last 20 years or so, the ideas they tap into have been around for ...

The term that collectively refers to the three principles described by Gregor Mendel that together summarize his extensive experiments studying the patterns of heredity for acquired characteristics.