Answer:
e) Lamarck
Explanation:
Lamarck stated that traits could be acquired due to the use or disuse of a certain structure, for example:  if giraffes were trying to reach leaves this would cause their necks to elongate and the trait would pass onto the next generation in other words organisms could change by what organisms want or need.  In the 1880s, the German biologist August Weismann disproved this theory.
 
        
             
        
        
        
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The statement which best explains why carbon is present in so many kinds of molecules is because <u>it can form four covalent bonds.
<em /></u>It isn't rare on Earth, so A is incorrect. It has valence electrons, so C is incorrect. It cannot become an ion, so D is incorrect.<u>
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