Variation Flashcards
The presence of differences between living things of the same species is called?
variation.
Variation in a characteristic that is a result of?
genetic information.
genetic information from the parents is called?
inherited variation.
What occurs when a sperm meets an egg?
Fertilisation.
Kathryn has bright blue hair. What kind of variation has caused this?
This is an example of environmental variation.
What type of graph do we use for discontinuous variation?
We use bar charts to show the results of discontinuous variation.
Where is most variation found?
Most variation is found between different species. Organisms within a species are often similar.
Human height is an example of
continuous variation.
A characteristic of any species with only a limited number of possible values shows
discontinuous variation.
Variation caused by the surroundings is called
environmental variation.
Variation between different species is usually greater than the.
variation within a species.
All people are human. They belong to the same
species.
Variation is the differences between individuals within a species. This can be caused by inherited or
environmental factors.
Variation can be continuous or
discontinuous.
Each egg cell and each sperm cell contains half of the genetic information needed for an individual. When these join at
fertilisation
