Question
Who believed that an organ in disuse would become vestigial?
- Lamarck
- de Vries
- Mendel
- Darwin.
Answer
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Explanation:
The idea that organs or traits that are not used can become vestigial over time was proposed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Lamarck believed that traits could be acquired or lost over the course of an organism’s lifetime based on its interactions with the environment and that these acquired traits could be passed on to offspring.
