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Capacity to pass on their remarkable skill
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heritability
Word definitions for heritability in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heritability \Her`it*a*bil"i*ty\, n. The state of being heritable.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being inheritable 2 (context countable genetics English) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Heritability is a statistic used in breeding and genetics works that estimates how much variation in a phenotypic trait in a population is due to genetic variation among individuals in that population. It is calculated with the following equation (for broad-sense ...
Usage examples of heritability.
Frustrated, Mendel retired from investigating heritability and spent the rest of his life growing outstanding vegetables and studying bees, mice, and sunspots, among much else.