alleryHeritability describes how much differences in a trait, across a group, are due to:
Agenetic differences
Bdifferent upbringings
Crandom chance events
Dage differences
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. genetic differences
1. Heritability is a statistic about variation in a trait in a population.
2. It estimates the share of that variation due to genetic variation between individuals.
3. The rest is attributed to environment and chance.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Nature versus nurture" (rev 1379405136), section "Heritability estimates"_
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