Why are the characteristics we inherit from our parents are either continueous or discontinueous?
Firstly, it’s spelt discontinuous Discontinuous and continuous are exact opposites There is no in between – a characteristic cannot be sort of continuous and sort of discontinuous – it’s one or the other Originally, we used to only use the word continuous, but the word discontinuous developed from there If you think about, everything in this universe is either continuous or not continuous. That’s like saying everything in the world is either a circle or not a circle and that has to be true, no matter what! So that means that all inherited human characteristics are continuous or not continuous (i.e. discontinuous) So the answer to your question is really just by defining the words, we know that all characteristics are either continuous or discontinuous Continuous characteristics include height, weight, intelligence, hairyness etc. Discontinuous characteristics include: eye colour, hair colour, blood group etc.
