Concept:Acquired characters are features developed during an organism's own lifetime due to environmental factors, not inherited changes.
Explanation:Such traits are not inherited from parents, so they are not received from parents.
They are not passed to offspring because they do not alter the genetic material in gametes.
These characters arise from environmental influences, for example, scars or loss of a limb.
They are not caused by mutation, as mutations are sudden, heritable genetic changes.
Thus, the correct description is that acquired characters are caused by the environment.
Answer:C. caused by the environment