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JIPMER2012ZoologyEvolution

Theory of continuity of germplasm was propounded by

Options

  1. AMendel
  2. BLamarck
  3. CWeismann
  4. DHaeckel

Correct answer

C. Weismann

Step-by-step solution

Theory of continuity of germplasm was proposed by August Weismann (1892), a German Biologist, he suggested that the changes occurring in germplasm are inherited by offsprings, whereas in somatoplasm are not transmitted to next generation.

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