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  4. Lamarck’s concept of inheritance of acquired characters was discarded by I. Mendel’s laws of inheritance. II. Theory of natural selection. III. Mutational theory. IV. Theory of continuity of germplasm. Choose the correct combination of the given options to complete the given statement

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Q. Lamarck’s concept of inheritance of acquired characters was discarded by
I. Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
II. Theory of natural selection.
III. Mutational theory.
IV. Theory of continuity of germplasm.
Choose the correct combination of the given options to complete the given statement

Evolution

Solution:

Statements I and IV are correct.
Mendel’s laws of inheritance and Weismann’s theory of continuity of germplasm $(1892) $ discarded Lamarck’s concept of inheritance of acquired characters. These two concepts gave the insight of inheritance pattern in organisms and the mechanism inovled in it.