. Give reasons why acquired characters are not inherited.

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Answer: Acquired characters are the results of our body’s response to external stimuli such as food, disease, climate change. This results in the development of a particular trait where a change of phenotype is observed. But for characters to get inherited to generation Genotype of an organism should be changed. In acquired characters, there is no change in the DNA of germ cells. Hence acquired characters cannot be inherited.