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Variation and Classification in Biology

The document discusses variation and classification in biology, focusing on differences within the same species. It explains that variation can be caused by inherited factors from parents or environmental influences. Examples include natural hair color and changes due to sun exposure or dyeing.

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Variation and Classification in Biology

The document discusses variation and classification in biology, focusing on differences within the same species. It explains that variation can be caused by inherited factors from parents or environmental influences. Examples include natural hair color and changes due to sun exposure or dyeing.

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KS3 Biology

7D Variation and
Classification
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Spot the differences – same species
There are also differences between organisms of the
same species.
For example, these people are all from the same species
but how many differences between them can you spot?

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What is variation?
Even though people are all from the same species, there
are many ways in which they are different from each other.
Some of them are male, some are female, some are tall,
some are short.

The differences that occur both between different species


and within the same species are called variation.

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What causes variation?
Variation is caused by two factors:

1. Some features are cause by inherited factors.


These are features that are passed on from parents.
For example, natural hair colour is an inherited feature.

2. Some features are caused by environmental factors.


These are features that are affected by the surroundings.

For example, someone can be born with brown hair which

then gets lighter in the Sun or might be dyed a different


colour.

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Environmental or inherited?

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