Two populations of Mendota frogs are raised in a common garden experiment. The inbred population has variance of 4 for leg length. The outbred population has a variance of 10 for leg length. What is the broad-sense heritability of leg length in the outbred population? If applicable, report exactly 2 significant digits (note that Canvas will automatically trim ending zeros after a decimal point, but it will not grade such answers as incorrect).
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It is the proportion of the phenotypic variance that can be attributed to genetic variance. In other words, it measures how much of the variation in a trait can be explained by genetic factors. In this case, we are given the variances of the inbred and outbred Show more…
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