Abstract
Hereditary characters may be classified as qualitative or quantitative. Qualitative characters occur in populations in forms which can be objectively distinguished from each other. For instance, people belong to blood group A, B, etc.; the distribution of such characters is discontinuous. On the other hand, quantitative characters, i.e., measurable ones, are distributed on a continuous scale. Where there is no clear-cut distinction between classes of individuals, the definition of classes remains more or less arbitrary and it is always possible to find measures or individuals situated between two classes.
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Frézal, J., Bonaïti-Pellié, C. (1978). Introduction to Genetic Analysis. In: Falkner, F., Tanner, J.M. (eds) Principles and Prenatal Growth. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0814-0_8
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