Variation

Question 1

What is phenotypic variation?

Answer 1

• the observable characteristics of an organism is the combination of genetic and environmental factors

Question 2

What is variation influenced by?

Answer 2

• The number of genes involved

Question 3

What is discontinous variation?

Answer 3

• Qualitative difference between phenotypes that have distinctive groups
• It is caused by gene mutation, different alleles at the same locus have large effects

Question 4

What is continous variation?

Answer 4

• Quantitative difference between phenotypes where there is a large range of variation within a population
• controlled by two or more genes, different alleles at locus