An example for Balanced Polymorphism – Phenotypically distinct forms of a trait in a single population
of a species.
You probably have no trouble recognizing your friends in a crowd. Each person has a unique genome, reflected in individual phenotypic variations such as appearance, voice, and temperament. Individual variation occurs in populations of all species.
Biological inheritance or heredity is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes prediVariation may be defined as differences among individuals of a species. All around us we see different organisms belonging to different species. Within each species too, no two individuals are identical to each other. Asexual reproduction produces identical offspring called clones and identical twins are seen in sexual reproduction. However, clones and identical twins can also differ from each other if subjected to different environmental conditions.
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. This is the process where a species diverges into two or more descendant species. Mutations are the sudden heritable changes which also play a key role in variation within populations. Balanced polymorphism is the presence of two or more phenotypically distinct forms of a trait in a single population of a species.