Estimates of Heritability Made by Comparing Related Individuals Assume That

question 24

Multiple Choice

Estimates of heritability made by comparing related individuals assume that the environments of related individuals:

• A)are more similar than those in which unrelated individuals are raised.
• B)are not any more similar than those in which unrelated individuals are raised.
• C)are manipulated so that some sibs within each family experience either one of the extreme ends of the environmental range.
• D)have no effect at all on phenotypic variance in the family.
• E)are identical for every sib in the family.

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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