RE’ has two functions-

a) Restriction of foreign genome

b) Modification/methylation of host genome using SAM

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Neo-Lamarckism - August Weismann

cut off the tails of mice for many generations and showed that this mutilation had no effect on the tail length of their descendants.

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory 

Evolution as such is the simple proposition that the characteristics of organisms change over time. 

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Postulate of Darwin

Geometric increase 

Limited food & Space

Struggle for existence 

Variation 

 Natural selection

Inheritance of useful characters

Speciation

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory - Common descent

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Gradualism is Darwin’s proposition that the differences between even radically different organisms have evolved by small steps through intermediate forms, not by leaps