Variation

What is variation?

What are the different types of variation?

What is intraspecific variation?

What is interspecific variation?

What is continuous variation?

Give examples of continuous variation in animals

Give examples of continuous variation in plants

Give examples of continuous variation in microorganisms

What is discontinuous variation?

Give an example of discontinuous variation in animals

Give an example of discontinuous variation in plants

Give an example of discontinuous variation in microorganisms

What are the 3 categories for causes of variation?

How do genetic factors cause variation?

TRUE OR FALSE:
Variation caused by genetic factors is inherited

TRUE OR FALSE:
Characteristics controlled by environmental factors (e.g. climate, food, lifestyle) can change over an organism's life

How do both genetic and environmental factors cause variation?

What is a mean?

What does standard deviation do?

TRUE OR FALSE:
Standard deviation is not as useful as the range

What is the equation for standard deviation?

What does the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient tell you?

What is the equation for the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient?

Complete the sentences:
The result of the Spearman's rank correlation test is a number between ___ and ____. If the figure is ____, then there is a perfect negative correlation between the two variables. The closer the figure is to ___, the weaker the correlation is.

Once you have the result to the Spearman's rank test, you need to find out if it's significant or not.

What does it mean if the result to the Spearman's rank test is "significant"?

What does a null hypothesis always suggest?