We learned of this guys work in High School back in the late 70's. You have only scratched the surface.
One of the things he would do is to teach the Paramecium to move away from a light source to find food. This is the opposite of its natural behavior. It was not an easy process, and took several generations of Paramecium, keeping only the ones with the new behavior. Once he got a group "trained" or behaving abnormally in this way, he would mash them up and feed them to another group that behaved normally.
They new group would then very quickly adapt to the new behavior. How was that infomation passed on?
LOTS of questions, but I don't know that he came up with many answers.
One of the things he would do is to teach the Paramecium to move away from a light source to find food. This is the opposite of its natural behavior. It was not an easy process, and took several generations of Paramecium, keeping only the ones with the new behavior. Once he got a group "trained" or behaving abnormally in this way, he would mash them up and feed them to another group that behaved normally.
They new group would then very quickly adapt to the new behavior. How was that infomation passed on?
LOTS of questions, but I don't know that he came up with many answers.