Pangenesis and alien life

Darwin's hypothetical mechanism of inheritance was called pangenesis, whereby the body continually produced particles of information - gemmules - which aggregated in the gonads, and that that the offspring would be born as it was because of the information it had inherited from the gemmules.

This kind of system of heredity would be compliant with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution, whereby organisms pass on characteristics to their offspring accquired during their own lifetime, seen as the body continually produces these gemmules.

My question is; Would something like pangenesis be a viable thing in alien life forms? Besides a Lamarckian mechanism of evolution, what would it entail for these organisms?

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