Look up: heritability

1. Heritability
   The proportion of the differences among cattle, measured or observed, that is transmitted to the offspring. Heritability varies from zero to one. The higher the heritability of a trait, the more accurately does the individual performance predict breeding value and the more rapid should be the response due to selection for that trait.
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2. Heritability
   That portion of the observed variance in a progeny that is inherited.
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3. Heritability
   Heritability: The degree to which something is inherited.
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4. heritability
   the proportion of variability of a character due to heredity,the remainder being due to environment Category: Medicine
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5. Heritability
   Her`it·a·bil'i·ty noun The state of being heritable.
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6. heritability
   The degree to which something is inherited. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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7. heritability
   (her″ĭ-tә-bil´ĭ-te) the capacity to be inherited. a measure of the extent to which a phenotype is influenced by the genotype. adj., her´itable, adj. .
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8. Heritability
   • (n.) The state of being heritable.
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9. heritability
   (from the article `heredity`) Although hereditary diseases and malformations are, unfortunately, by no means uncommon in the aggregate, no one of them occurs very frequently. The ... Heritability is the proportion of the additive genetic variation to the total variation. Heritability is important because without genetic variation ... ...
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10. heritability
    Type: Term Pronunciation: her′i-tă-bil′i-tē Definitions: 1. In psychometrics, a statistical term used to denote the extent of variance of a person's total score or response that is attributable to a presumed genetic component, in contrast to an acquired component. 2. In genetic...
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11. Heritability
    the fraction of the variability in a trait that is caused by genetic differences.
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12. Heritability
    `Heritability` is the proportion of phenotypic variation in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals. Phenotypic variation among individuals may be due to genetic, environmental factors, and/or random chance. Heritability analyses estimate the relative contributions of diffe...
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