Question

The inheritable characters vary in different species and within the same species. Name the variation in the following cases.

i) The eye colour among human beings is varied as blue, black, brown, green, etc. This is called _______variation.

ii) The dentition in the rabbit and the elephant are not the same. This is called as __________ variation.

Answer 1

i) Intraspecific variations are the variations that happen within a species or including members of one species. In humans, individuals vary in many features like size, body proportion, the colour of skin, shape, and colour of the eye, hair colour, etc.

ii) Inter-Specific variation: In this, the variation happens between two different organisms that belong to a different genus.