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FOR a generation it has been a cardinal principle of thought and teaching with a majority of biologists that acquired characters are not inherited. Under the influence of Weismann and his doctrine of the independence of germ and soma this position has frequently been adopted even in its extreme form, that the inheritance of acquired characters is an impossibility. Botanists, on the other hand, have usually been less dogmatic on the subject, probably because in higher plants there is no such early segregation of germ-cells and somatic cells as occurs in many animals.
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GATES, R. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 107, 89 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107089a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107089a0