In a prolonged drought period, forage was scarce. It made animals reach out for higher forage and this way the giraffes got the stretched long...

In a prolonged drought period, forage was scarce. It made animals reach out for higher forage and this way the giraffes got the stretched long necks.
(a) What is the term used for a characteristic such as the long necks outlined?
(b) What is the name given to the theory that describes the evolution of such structures like the long necks?
(c) State and explain the limitation of the theory you named in (b) above.

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(a) Acquired characteristics;
(b) Lamarck?s theory/Lamarckism/Theory of use and disuse;
(c) Acquired characteristics are not passed to offsprings;
-This is because acquired characteristics do not affect genes.

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sharon kalunda answered the question on September 13, 2019 at 10:35

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