1. In 1889, August Weismann, a German biologist, conducted an experiment attempting to produce mice
without tails. He cut the tails off adult mice and then allowed them to mate. All offspring had long tails.
He repeated the experiment many times, always with the same results. This experiment helped to
disprove the concept of
a. Inheritance of acquired traits
b. Survival of the fittest
C. Overproduction in a species
d. Struggle for existence
