Linking number is topological property which is expressed as  Total No. of Base Pair/Base pair per turn.

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Before Darwin - Christians interpreted “special creation”

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Carolus Linnaeus - Classified “related” species into genera, “related” genera into orders, and so on. 

To him, “relatedness” meant propinquity in the Creator’s design.

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James Hutton and Charles Lyell – Uniformitarianism

Darwin was greatly influenced by Lyell’s teachings, and he adopted uniformitarianism in his thinking about evolution.

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Chevalier de Lamarck

Different organisms originated separately by spontaneous generation from nonliving matter.

We now see a hierarchy of species because they differ in age

Species differ from one another because they have different needs.

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Just as muscles become strengthened by work, more strongly exercised organs attract and become enlarged by the “nervous fluid.” 

Acquired during an individual’s lifetime, are inherited—a principle called inheritance of acquired characteristics.