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Inherited and Environmental Variation Variation

The document discusses sources of variation in humans, including genetics, environment, and a mixture of both. It provides examples of characteristics like height, weight, and intelligence that can be influenced by genetics alone, environment alone, or a combination. The passage then describes identical twins Amy and Alice, noting they share some characteristics like genetics but have differences in others due to environmental factors like injuries or illnesses.

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Inherited and Environmental Variation Variation

The document discusses sources of variation in humans, including genetics, environment, and a mixture of both. It provides examples of characteristics like height, weight, and intelligence that can be influenced by genetics alone, environment alone, or a combination. The passage then describes identical twins Amy and Alice, noting they share some characteristics like genetics but have differences in others due to environmental factors like injuries or illnesses.

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Inherited and Environmental Variation

Variation means…………………………………………………………………………………………

Some forms of variation come purely from genes. This is ………………………………………….....

Other forms of variation come purely from the environment. This is …………………………………

Many forms of variation are a mixture of the two.

Here is a list of characteristics that show variation in humans. Think about them and decided
whether they are caused by genetics alone, environment alone, or both. Fill in the table.

Height, weight, blood group, speech, language, intelligence, hair colour, eye colour, tongue-
rolling, freckles, fitness,

Genetic only Environment only Mixture of genetic and


environment
Amy and Alice are identical twins. Many people cannot tell them apart. Amy likes sport and
spends most of the summer outside riding her bike and skateboard. Sometimes she falls off and
has had injuries with have left a scar. Alice prefers reading and dislikes strong sunshine. She
had an serious ear infection when she was little, and this left her partly deaf. She can lip-read
but Amy cannot. Amy is in set 1 for maths at school, Alice is in set 2. They both like music; Amy
plays the trombone, Alice the piano.

Read the passage carefully, then answer the questions.

1. Suggest two characteristics that Amy and Alice will share that are caused entirely by their
genetics.

1………………………………………………………………………………………………

2………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. State two characteristics given in the passage that Amy and Alice do not share. Why are
these characteristics different?

1………………………………………………..…… 2……………………………………………………

Why are they different? ………………………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

3. When might Alice’s skin colour differ from Amy’s and why?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

4. What might explain the girls being in different maths sets?

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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