Multiple Choice
In an experiment carried out in a chicken population,measurements of fat content reveal that the genetic variance for this trait is 120 g2,the environmental variance is 80 g2 and the variance due to dominance is 38 g2.The narrow-sense heritability (h2) of fat content in these chickens is:
A) 0.24.
B) 0.41.
C) 0.52.
D) 0.74.
E) 0.90 .
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