What Does It Mean to Say That the Heritability of a Trait

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Multiple Choice

What does it mean to say that the heritability of a trait is 70 percent

• A) Thirty percent of a person's expression of that trait is due to environmental factors. 
• B) Seventy percent of a person's expression of that trait is due to heredity. 
• C) Seventy percent of the variability of that trait in a group is accounted for by genetic variation. 
• D) The correlation between identical twins should be approximately +0.70 for that trait.

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