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Who disproved the idea of inheritance of acquired traits using tailless mice?

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I think you're looking for August Weismann who disproved the idea of inheritance of acquired traits from somatic cells (body cells). By doing so, he proved that inheritance only takes place by germ cells (gametes).
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