When All of the Variation in a Population Is Due

question 4

Multiple Choice

When all of the variation in a population is due to environmental sources and there is no genetic variation,broad sense heritability (H²) :

• A)is zero and all of the phenotypic variability is due to loci at other locations.
• B)is zero and all of the phenotypic variability is due to environment.
• C)is some negative value indicating the phenotypic variability is due to some recessive loci.
• D)is some positive value indicating the phenotypic variability is due to some dominant loci.

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