Quantitative characters
Vary along a continuum within a population
Discrete characters
Can be classified on an either or basis
Natural selection acts on
Individuals
One misconception is that organisms involved in the
Darwinian sense
Microevolution
Change in allele frequencies in a population over generations
What contributes to produce the variation in gene pools I contribute to differences among individuals
Mutation and sexual reproduction
Both discreet and quantitative characters contribute to
Variation in a population