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An agricultural breeder seeks to build a bigger green bean.Truncation selection is applied to a population and the intensityof selection on bean size is measured as (i = 0.15). In the nextgeneration the response to selection is measured as 0.08. What isthe realized heritability of the trait “bean size” in thepopulation?

A) 0.15 B) 0.08 C) 0.082 D) 0.012 E) none of the above

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answer Some theory detailed below to give an overview of few technical terms In truncation selection only a fixed proportion of the population is chosen to reproduce and find the next generation Individuals are selected as parents only    See Answer
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