Who proposed the Mutation Theory?

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(A) The Mutation Theory was proposed by $Hugo 	ext{ } de 	ext{ } Vries$ in $1901$. He worked on the evening primrose, $Oenothera 	ext{ } lamarckian

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(A) The Mutation Theory was proposed by $Hugo 	ext{ } de 	ext{ } Vries$ in $1901$. He worked on the evening primrose, $Oenothera 	ext{ } lamarckiana$, and observed that new species arise due to sudden, large, and heritable changes in the genetic material, which he termed as mutations.

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