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(a)
To determine:
The narrow-sense heritability (h2) for both the trait in the given problem.
Introduction:
The term heritability refers to the proportion of the genetic variance to the total variance. It is classified into two types namely broad sense heritability and narrow sense heritability. Narrow-sense heritability (h2) is the ratio of additive variance to the total phenotypic variance. It is widely used by the animal and plant breeders for accurate prediction of the population for artificial selection.
(b)
To determine:
The trait that will respond likely to selection.
Introduction:
The term selection refers to the process of selecting up specific individuals which contain desired
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