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Quantitative characters

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Vary along a continuum within a population

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Discrete characters

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Can be classified on an either or basis

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Natural selection acts on

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Individuals

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One misconception is that organisms involved in the

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Darwinian sense

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Microevolution

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Change in allele frequencies in a population over generations

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What contributes to produce the variation in gene pools I contribute to differences among individuals

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Mutation and sexual reproduction

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Both discreet and quantitative characters contribute to

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Variation in a population

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