Discontinuous And Continuous Variation In Biology

Genetic Control of Discontinuous and Continuous Variation1. a) i. Discontinuous variations, like height, are controlled by the effects of a single gene or a very small set of genes that control the phenotype of the characteristic (Mather and Jinks 2013). Continuous variations, like height differences, are controlled by the effects of multiple genes, which are known as the polygenic inheritance (Boyd and Silk 2014).
ii. Continuous variations a…