3.4.7 - Investigating Diversity

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What is diversity?

The variety of alleles within or between species

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How can genetic diversity be assessed?

  • The base sequence of DNA

  • the base sequence of mRNA

  • The amino acid sequence of proteins

  • The frequency of measurable or observable characteristics

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Why are samples taken when measuring variation?

Because it would take too long to record data on every individual within a population

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How should variation be investigated scientifically?

  • Randomly sampling to avoid bias

  • Take large samples to ensure results are representative

  • A mean to summarise data

  • The standard deviation to show spread of values around the mean

  • Statistics to compare whether variation between groups is significant