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zarkam21:

Need explanation of psych term: heritability.

zarkam21:

zarkam21:

So its connected to the phenotypic variations, so to say.

zarkam21:

So whatever the phenotype characteristics are, that is what the heredity is?

zarkam21:

@Vocaloid

zarkam21:

W.E you get a chance =)

zarkam21:

Also need explanation of : As noted, if the extent of similarity on a particular trait correlates strongly with the degree of genetic closeness, it can be inferred that the trait is highly heritable, while weaker correlations indicate lower heritability.

Vocaloid:

heritability is basically the extent to which a certain trait is passed through genetics so IQ, for example, is considered 50% heritable

Vocaloid:

the paragraph is saying that if a trait is shown to be strongly related to a genetic similarity, then it's highly heritable, and the opposite is also true (if a trait is not related very much to genetic similarity, then it has low heritability)

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