NEET Biology question

Presence of visceral pouches in the embryos of all vertebrates supports the theory of

(A)Organic evolutionCorrect
(B)Biogenesis
(C)Metamorphosis
(D)Recapitulation

Answer: (A)

Solution

The theory of recapitulation is often known as ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. It was an idea of Etienne Serres in 1824-26. In 1886 Ernst Haeckel proposed that the embryonic development of an individual organism (its ontogeny) followed the same path as the evolutionary history of its species (its phylogeny). It is

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