Biology A-Level
Combined effects on variation
What Combined effects on variation means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Combined effects on variation
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Genotype sets a potential and the environment determines where within that potential the phenotype falls.
Topics that use Combined effects on variation
- Patterns of inheritance (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Allele frequencies
- Alleles, genotypes and phenotypes
- Autosomal linkage
- Change in allele frequency over generations
- Chi-squared (χ²) test
- continuous variation
- critical value
- Crossing over and independent assortment
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