By one or both of these methods, acquired characteristics of the father and mother are transmitted to their children.
In this class are found most of the instances of "functional modification" or acquired characteristics.
One of the great disputes of biology is that concerning the question of whether or not parents may transmit to their offspring their personal "acquired characteristics" as well as those inherited from their line of ancestors.
Spencer considered the inheritance of acquired characteristics a factor in evolution of the very first importance; and so, indeed, from his point of view it is.
Either,” he declared, “there has been inheritance of acquired characteristics, or there has been no evolution.
The Lamarckian law, then, if it has any real effect at all, can only express half the truth about the action of heredity on acquired characteristics.
On this is based the familiar process of inoculation, an admirable example of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
The chief of these is the important theory of the germ-plasm and the consequent opposition to the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
At the same time, this interesting metamorphosis of the pleuronectides gives us an excellent instance of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, as a consequence of constant oecological habit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquired characteristics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
