MHT CET Biology question

Which of the following evidence does not favor the Lamarckian concept of inheritance of acquired character? [MHT CET 2013]

(A)Absence of limbs in snakes
(B)Presence of webbed toes in aquatic birds
(C)Melanisation in peppered mothCorrect
(D)Lack of pigment in cave-dwelling animals

Answer: (C)

Solution

Industrial melanism in the peppered moth is explained by natural selection of pre-existing mutants, not by inheritance of acquired characters; loss of limbs in

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