Look up: heritability

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   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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   Heritability
   That portion of the observed variance in a progeny that is inherited.
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   Heritability
   Heritability: The degree to which something is inherited.
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   heritability
   the proportion of variability of a character due to heredity,the remainder being due to environment Category: Medicine
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   Heritability
   Her`it·a·bil'i·ty noun The state of being heritable.
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   heritability
   The degree to which something is inherited. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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   Heritability
   In genetics, `heritability` is the proportion of phenotypic variation in a population that is attributable to genetic variation among individuals. Variation among individuals may be due to genetic and/or environmental factors. Heritability analyses estimate the relative contributions of differences in genetic and non-genetic factors to the total phenotypic variance in a population.
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   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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   Heritability
   • (n.) The state of being heritable.
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    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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