What are acquired traits? Why are traits generally not inherited over generation? Explain.
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Acquired traits as the name says are acquired by the individual during its life time. Acquired traits are due to changes in the life style, injury, loss of body parts, disuse of some body parts. These are the traits which occur in the somatic cells. Changes in the somatic cells are not passed on to the offspring belonging to next generation. Hence acquired traits cannot be passed on to next generation
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ACQUIRED TRAITS
acquired traits are the characters that cannot be passed from one generation to the next generation.
Such changes do not occur in the reproductive tissues. Changes in the non-reproductive tissues are not passed on to the DNA of the germ cells and therefore not inherited by the next generation.
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