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Which of the following best captures the central thesis of the passage?
- 1To completely dismantle the Neo-Darwinian synthesis by proving that Lamarckian evolution is the sole driver of phenotypic variation in modern organisms.
- 2To argue that Weismann's barrier remains impenetrable, despite statistically insignificant anomalies in environmental gene expression.
- 3To elucidate how epigenetic mechanisms necessitate a modification of traditional evolutionary theory by demonstrating the heritability of environmentally induced traits.✓
- 4To propose that DNA methylation and histone modification are random, environmentally independent processes that exactly parallel traditional nucleotide mutations.
Correct answer
To elucidate how epigenetic mechanisms necessitate a modification of traditional evolutionary theory by demonstrating the heritability of environmentally induced traits.
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