Heritability May Be Calculated as Which of the Following

question 4

Multiple Choice

Heritability may be calculated as which of the following?

• A) the total variance minus environmental variance
• B) total variance minus genetic variance
• C) genetic variance divided by environmental variance
• D) genetic variance divided by total variance
• E) None of these choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Formula

A concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical or chemical formula, representing a relationship between variables.

One-Sample Tests

Statistical tests used to compare the mean of a sample to a known value or standard, in order to assess if the sample comes from a population with that specific mean.

Alternative Hypotheses

In statistical testing, a hypothesis that suggests a difference or effect contrary to the null hypothesis, essentially proposing that an observed effect is real.

Null

In statistics, this refers to the null hypothesis, which is a default hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect.