Q: How did lamarck believe species change over time?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was an important French naturalist. He was one of the first scientists to propose that species change over time. However, Lamarck was wrong about how species change. His idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics is incorrect. Traits an organism develops during its own life time cannot be passed on to offspring, as Lamarck believed.

 Choices:

- became larger

- lose of acquired traits

- ecological of acquired characteristics

- inheritance of acquired characteristics


A:
inheritance of acquired characteristics