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What Are Continuous and Discontinuous Variations?

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In organisms, some changes pertain to body cells and are not inherited, whereas some changes pertain to germ cells and are inheritable.
Name the two types of variations respectively.

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Variations that occur in somatic cells are called somatic variations. These are non-inheritable. Variations that occur in germ cells are called blastogenic variations. These are heritable.

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