6.1 Variation In Organisms

6. Variation

What is variation?  Types of variation.  Causes of variation. 

6.1 Variation In Organisms

What is meant by variation? 

Differences between organisms of the same species

What are the variation in humans? Characteristics that cause differences between human  Eg. Height, weight, hair colour, eye colour, skin colour etc. 

Types of variation  1.

2.

Two types Continuous variation – characteristics which show continuous change (quantitative). E.g. weight and height. Discontinuous variation – the differences in the character are distinctive (qualitative). E.g. blood group and fingerprint patterns.

continuous variation and discontinuous variation

Exercise 

Do Checkpoint 6.1 on page 195 in the textbook.