Heritability Is Best Defined as

question 280

Multiple Choice

Heritability is best defined as

• A) the extent to which differences between people in measures of a trait are due to genetic factors.
• B) the degree to which an individual's chromosomes contribute to a given trait.
• C) the extent to which a given trait is malleable with environmental manipulations.
• D) the degree to which a given trait will be pass on to the offspring of two reproducing adults.

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Definitions:

Emotional Burden

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Control

The ability to shape or control the actions of others or the direction of events.

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