Question

tabulate two distinguish features between inherited and acquired traitswith one examples each?

Answer 1

Acquired Trait

Inherited Trait

1. These are not inherited instead they gets developed in the response of surrounding environment.

These traits are acquired by change in the genes.

2. These traits are not genetical and therefore cannot be passed to the future generation.

These can be passed on to the future generation,

Example: When a beetle starves due to lack of food, it loses its weight. This trait is acquired one.

Example: color variation in a group of beetles