A selection experiment was carried out on a population of field mice in the lab had a mean hematocrit of 65. The mice used to create the next generation had a mean hematocrit of 50. Once the offspring from that experiment reached adulthood, the experimenters measure a mean hematocrit of 58. Answer the following questions using this information a). What is the narrow sense heritability for hematocrit in these mice? Show all work b).Using those results, what would be the predicted hematocrit in the offspring population after another generation of selection where only mice with a mean hematocrit 10 points below the parental mean were allowed to breed. Show all work
1. A selection experiment was carried out on a population of field mice in the lab had a mean hematocrit of 65. The mice used to create the next generation had a mean hematocrit of 50. Once the offspring from that experiment reached adulthood, the experimenters measure a mean
hematocrit of 58. Answer the following questions using this information
a). What is the narrow sense heritability for hematocrit in these mice? Show all work
b).Using those results, what would be the predicted hematocrit in the offspring population after another generation of selection where only mice with a mean hematocrit 10 points below the parental mean were allowed to breed. Show all work
c). Would you expect the narrow sense heritability for a wild population of field mice in Iqaluit to be the same ? Explain.
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