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Question 85

What does a biologist mean by variation?

  1. The differences between individuals of the same speciesCorrect answer
  2. The differences between one species and another
  3. The changes an individual goes through as it grows older
  4. The number of species living in one habitat

Explanation

Variation is measured inside a species, comparing members of the same kind of organism with one another, such as two dogs or two sunflowers. Comparing separate species describes how species differ from each other, which is a different idea and would leave the differences within each species unrecorded.

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