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- Acquired characteristics, by definition, are characteristics that are gained by an organism after birth as a result of external influences or the organism's own activities which change its structure or function and cannot be inherited.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_characteristic
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An acquired characteristic is a non-heritable change in a function or structure of a living organism caused after birth by disease, injury, accident, deliberate modification, variation, repeated use, disuse, misuse, or other environmental influence. Acquired traits are synonymous with
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See moreAcquired characteristics, by definition, are characteristics that are gained by an organism after birth as a result of external influences or the organism's own activities which change its structure or function and cannot be inherited.
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See moreThere are four main types of disease: pathogenic disease, deficiency disease, hereditary disease, and physiological disease.
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See more• Lamarck's inheritance of acquired characteristics
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• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• August Weismann's Experiments on the inheritance of acquired characteristics...
See moreThe World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Acquired characteristics do not necessarily affect the health of an organism, (a scar,
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