Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Inheritance, Classification and Variation
- Discontinious Variation
- The feature is in categories
- like blood group
- Continious variation
- The feature can vary over a range of
values
- like shoe size
- Variation is just the differences
between organisms
- Environmental
- Environmental variation is
variation affected by the
environment
- Plants vary environmentally by:
- Temperature
- Moisture
- Sunlight
- Soil Conditions
- Inherited variation
- These are from our genes
- Inheritance and Selective Breeding
- Selective Breeding is where humans
choose animals and plants with favourable
characteristics. They then allow these plants
to reproduce.
- Humans usually benefit
from selective breeding
- Plants and animals developed
by selective breeding
- Winter Wheat is
disease and frost
resistant
- Pedigree Dogs are bred
for intelligence or behavior
and fashion
- Domestic livestock is bred for
produce farmers have been
doing this for years without even
realising.
- Inheritance is the
characteristics you get when
your parents egg and sperm
fuse together
- Human cells have 46 chromosomes in
- The sperm cell and the egg cell each have 23
chromosomes which when fused together during
fertilisation a mixture of the parents characteristic
will develop
- Classification
- Living things can be classified into groups
- These groups are
Plants Animals and
Fungi
- Vertabrate is an
animal with a
backbone
- Invertabrate an
animal with a
backbone