In a natural population of outbreeding plants


In a natural population of outbreeding plants, the variance of the total number of seeds per plant is 16. From the natural population, 20 plants are taken into the laboratory and developed into separate true-breeding lines by self-fertilization-with selection for high, low, or medium number of seeds-for 10 generations. The average variance in the tenth generation in each of the 20 sets is about 5.8 across all sets. Estimate the broad-sense heritability for seed number in this population. H^2 = (16-5.8)/16 = 0.64 Is this correct? 

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Biology: In a natural population of outbreeding plants
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