Types of variations in organisms
Variation.
The term variation describes the differences in characteristics shown by organism belonging to the same natural population or species.
Types of variation
- Continuous variation.
Variation is said to be continuous when there is a gradual change of character from one individual to another e.g. skin color, length of leaves, and height of individuals. i.e. it is quantitative.
- Discontinuous variation
In discontinuous variation, there is a clear – cut difference between the characteristics e.g. blood groups, tongue- rolling, sex etc.
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