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Is human skin colour continuous or discontinuous variation?
Natural eye colour is discontinuous. :) !
What is a result of polygenic inheritance?
Continous variation where individuals exhibit a range of characteristics such as skin colour rather than discontinous variation where they are either one or the other such as male or female.
What is the definition for variation?
Any difference between two indivisuals of the same species For example: Eye colour, Hair colour etc is called Variation
Why do some people have the same skin colour as their parent and others skin colour different from their parent?
it depends on your gene. there are dominant and recessive gene present. and for skin colour, bright colour are dominant over dark colour. if the both the parent are bright skin colour but the children is dark skin colour. there are possibilities where the recessive gene present in one or both parent. under certain circumstances the recessive gene will show its trait instead of the dominant gene. that's why some parent skin colour is different from the childrens' skin colour
What can be inherited?
eye colour, hair colour, language spoken, skin colour and others
Is human skin colour continuous or discontinuous variation?
Natural eye colour is discontinuous. :) !
Is hair color continuous or discontinuous variation?
Hair colour is continuous because there is a continual range of values when it comes to hair colour
What is continuous and discontinuous variations?
Continuous variation is variation without fixed values such as height or shoe size. Discontinuous variation has fixed values/catagories such as eye colour or hair colour. Hope this helps!
Is the gender a continuous or discontinuous variation?
discontinuous
What causes discontinuous variation?
Continuous: height, weight, skin colour. Discontinuous: eye colour, attached ear lobes Continuous variation varies from degree to degree gradually, affected by external conditions. Discontinuous variation only has two or more definite 'extremes', determined by genes only.
Is rose flower color continuous or discontinuous variation?
Discontinuous
What are the different kinds of variation?
Continuous Variation and Discontinuous Variation.
Are lobed ears a discontinuous variation?
yes
Is length of your arm a discontinuous variation?
Yesh
Is a scar a discontinuous variation?
It is a continuous variation which is not by birth. It is an injury which will slowly change so a scar is a continuous variation.
Is fingerprint a discontinuous variation?
Yes it is, because in discontinuous variation, the differences are clear cut and discrete, meaning that they will not merge/blend into each other. Another example of discontinuous variation would be horns in cattle. There is either the presence or absence of horns on a cow, you will not see a cow "almost having a horn".
What determines your foot size?
a person foot size can be determine by discontinuous variation
