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Write true or false for the following statements:

An individual can pass on to its progeny the experiences of its lifetime.

False

The experiences of an individual over lifetime are acquired characters and thus cannot be passed on to the progeny.


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The frequency of certain genes in a population changed one generation. This is the essence of the idea of evolution.

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The preserved traces of all living organisms are called fossils.

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Relative method and carbon dating are the methods to known about evolution.