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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