Dr Jennings Is Interested in Studying the Heritability of Jealousy

question 152

Multiple Choice

Dr. Jennings is interested in studying the heritability of jealousy. So he conducts a twin study and concludes that the heritability coefficient is +1.82. What does this mean?

• A) the variability in jealousy is mostly due to genes
• B) the variability in jealousy is due to both genes and environment
• C) Dr. Jennings made a mistake
• D) jealousy is not a polygenetic trait
• E) the variability in jealousy is mostly due to the environment

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