N an experiment, suppose that the wings of fruit flies were clipped short for fifty generations. The fifty-first generation emerged with normal-length wings. This observation would tend to disprove the idea that evolution is based on
a. inheritance of natural variations
b. inheritance of acquired characteristics
c. natural selection
d. survival of the fittest
Inheritance of acquired characteristics. Thus, option "B" is correct.
<h3 /><h3>What is inheritance of acquired characteristics?</h3>
For fifty generations wings of fruit flies were clipped. Hence they acquired this trait in their lifetime and not genetically. If acquired characteristics were capable of passing on to next generation, 50 generations would have been enough to inculcate this clipped wing trait in fruit flies. Despite it, the fifty-first generation did not have clipped wings.
Hence evolution can not occur without genetic variation. A character simply acquired in a lifetime does not create a difference in germ cells and hence is not enough to be passed on to next generation or cause evolution
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The result would be twenty-five percent yellow and the blue ones will be fifty percent while green is twenty-five percent. If an F2 generation is derived from the two true-breeding parents which have the same trait for different characteristics. The recessive phenotype would be hundred percent of true breeding if they fertilized themselves. A recessive trait is expressed when the genotype is only homozygous recessive.
Answer:
Explanation:
Amphibians are group of animals that live a double life; one in water with gills and the other on land with lungs (at maturity). They include frogs, newts, salamanders etc.
Reptiles ( meaning to creep under shadow of darkness) are group of animals that possess scales. They include snakes, crocodiles, lizards etc.
Reptiles and amphibians are distantly related but share some traits including:
1. They are both poikilothermic (cold-blooded) animals i.e. their body temperature is dependent on that of the environment's.
2. They both lay eggs externally, although that of amphibians is fertilized after being layed
3. They both possess lungs for gaseous exchange, although, amphibians use gills in water.
4. Both reptiles and amphibians belongs to Chordata i.e. they both possess a vertebrae column (backbone)
5. Most reptiles and amphibians make use of the same defensive and attacking traits as a pretty and predator respectively. They employ camouflage, biting and inflating of their body size.
Answer: space or shelter, ability to reproduce
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