CB3f Variation

Question 1

Environmental variation

Answer 1

When an organism’s phenotype is affected by it’s surroundings

Question 2

Acquired characteristics

Answer 2

A characteristic in an organism that can change during its life due to a change in the environment

Question 3

Discontinuous Variation

Answer 3

Is where the data can only take a limited set of values

Number of leaves

Question 4

Continuous Variation

Answer 4

Where the data can be a value in any range

Leaf length

Question 5

Normal distribution (continuous data)

Answer 5

When many individuals have the middle value for a feature with fewer individuals having greater or lesser values