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What is continuous variation?

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(i) The variation may be due to the combining effects of environmental and genetic factors.
(ii) Inheritance of phenotype is determined by the combined effects of many genes,(polygenes) and enviromental factors.
(iii) It is also known as quantitative inheritance.
Example: Human height and skin color.
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