Environmental Variation + Inherited Flashcards

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Environment

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An organism’s surroundings

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Environmental factors

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That can change an organism including other organisms

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Physical environmental factors

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Non-living factors such as light, wind, etc…

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Characteristics

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Features of an organism

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Variation

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Differences between the characteristics of an organism

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Environmental variation

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The variation caused by an organism’s environment.

E.g. Hairstyle, clothes, etc…

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Continuous data

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That can have any data

E.g. Height, weight, etc…

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Discontinuous data

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Only have a value from a limited set of values.

E.g. Hair colour, eye colour…

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Classification

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Sorting organisms into groups

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Inherited variation

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Passed on (in the genes) from one generation to the next.

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Normal distribution

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

This sort of data forms a bell-shaped on charts and graphs.

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