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

1. 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.

2. 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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