Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding heritability?
A) Heritability is the measure of whether a trait can be passed from parents to offspring in a given population.
B) A heritability of 100% means that a certain traitif present in the parental generationwill always be observed in the progeny.
C) A heritability of 0% means that any variation observed for a trait in a given population is the result of geneticnot environmentalfactors.
D) If the heritability of a given trait in a population is 100%, then the heritability of that trait for all populations will be 100% (i.e., heritability is constant across different populations for the same trait) .
E) None of the answer options is correct.
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