Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

What is the ratio of additive genetic variance to phenotypic variance called?

Correct answer D. Heritability (narrow sense)

Explanation

Narrow-sense heritability uses only additive variance, the portion passed reliably from parents to offspring, so it predicts response to selection better than broad-sense heritability.

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