A peach breeder has an orchard of peach trees with an average fruit mass of 30 g. The breeder selects the top 10% of plants to reproduce for the next generation. The selected plants have an average fruit mass of 45 g. The next generation has an average fruit mass of 36 g. a) What is the narrow-sense heritability for fruit weight in this orchard

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A peach breeder has an orchard of peach trees with an average fruit mass of 30 g. The breeder selects the top 10% of plants to reproduce for the next generation. The selected plants have an average fruit mass of 45 g. The next generation has an average fruit mass of 36 g. a) What is the narrow-sense heritability for fruit weight in this orchard

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Sheldon Mahoney · Answer 1

A peach breeder has an orchard of peach trees with an average fruit mass of 30 g. The breeder selects the top 10% of plants to reproduce for the next generation. The selected plants have an average fruit mass of 45 g. The next generation has an average fruit mass of 36 g. a) What is the narrow-sense heritability for fruit weight in this orchard

From the analogy, it shows that the weight is reduced as crossing continues in the fruit mass, this could be attributed to different factors