Inheritance, Classification and Variation - created from Mind Map

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 Inherited variation Environmental variation is variation affected by the environment Plants vary environmentally by: Temperature Moisture Sunlight Soil Conditions 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. Inheritance is the characteristics you get when your parents egg and sperm fuse together 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 withou even realising. Human cells have 46 chromosomes in

Inheritance, Classification and Variation