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Characteristics

Name Class Date

1 Look at the list of characteristics below. For each one, decide if the characteristic is inherited,
is caused by environmental factors, or could be caused by a combination of both. Record
your answers in the chart. Add any other characteristics you can think of to the blank rows at
the bottom.

Characteristic Inherited Environmental Both

colour of eyes

colour of skin

colour of hair

length of hair

scars

height

weight

shape of fingernails

need to wear glasses

shape of nose

2 a What sort of information causes inherited variation?

b Where is this information stored?

I can…
● identify inherited and environmental variation.

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