Heritable variation — Science definition
Differences between individuals that can be passed to offspring, supplied by mutation, meiosis and recombination before any pressure arrives.
Where it is taught
- Natural Selection, Adaptation & Population Change — Evolution, Evidence & Life History, Life Science & Scientific Inquiry, Grade 7
In use
First, heritable variation: individuals differ, and some of those differences are passed to offspring — which meiosis, recombination and mutation supply.
Natural Selection, Adaptation & Population Change