Explain the precise meaning of the statement “The heritabilityof height in humans is 0.85â€. In your answer you should indicatewhat proportions of the total phenotypic variance in heightobserved in the population is due to genetic variance and whatproportion is due to environmental variance. Explain whyheritability only tells you something about the population, andcan’t be applied to a single individual. For example, explain whyit makes no sense to say that a heritability of 0.85 means that 85%of your height is due to your genes and 15% of your height is dueto the environment you developed in.
