Multiple Choice
Which of these statements about heritability is FALSE?
A) Twin studies can offer insight into broad sense heritability of human traits.
B) Broad sense heritability measures the ratio of genetic variance to phenotypic variance.
C) Heritability measures the extent to which environmental variation contributes to the total phenotypic variation.
D) High narrow sense heritability values are correlated with a greater degree of response to artificial selection.
E) Narrow sense heritability measures the contribution of additive genotypic variance to phenotypic variance.
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