If You Discovered That the Heritability Coefficient for Height Was

question 99

Multiple Choice

If you discovered that the heritability coefficient for height was 0.90, this would mean

• A) that the observed variation was due mostly to genes
• B) there was little variability in the group under observation
• C) genes were completely responsible for the expression of height
• D) that the observed variation was due mostly to the environment
• E) that everyone in the group was tall

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