GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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Question
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color of a dog’s fur
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color blindness of a person
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the ability of a mouse to run a maze
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a person’s ability to roll their tongue
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Detailed explanation-1: -Acquired traits include things such as calluses on fingers, larger muscle size from exercise or from avoiding predators. Behaviors that help an organism survive would also be considered acquired characteristics most of the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -An acquired characteristic is a non-heritable change in a function or structure of a living biotic material caused after birth by disease, injury, accident, deliberate modification, repeated use, disuse, or misuse, or other environmental influences.
Detailed explanation-3: -An acquired trait is the character developed in an individual as a result of environmental influence. These traits are not coded by the DNA of a living organism and therefore cannot be passed on to future generations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hair color, eye color of an individual are hereditary characters. Acquired characters are the characters that are acquired by the individual during its lifetime. They are present due to changes in the lifestyle, injury. Acquired traits are not inherited to the offspring from parents.