discontinuous variation
Americannoun
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Mendel worked instead with traits that show discontinuous variation.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
I think I have demolished "discontinuous variation" as having any but the most subordinate part in evolution of species.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Marchant, James
Such a continuous change cannot be explained by a discontinuous variation, i.e. a mutation.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
This seems crude when stated with archaic frankness but becomes plausible if paraphrased in modern language as "discontinuous variation and the spontaneous origin of definite species."
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
As compared with the normal Flat-fish they arise by a discontinuous variation, they are mutations, whereas the normal Flat-fish as compared with its symmetrical ancestor arises by a continuous change.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
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