In plants, a trait has a narrow-sense heritability of 0.75.  This indicates  a) the trait is inherited from a parent 75% of the time. b) the proportion of phenotypic variance due to environmental variance. c) the degree of inbreeding from artificial selection. d) the proportion of variance due to additive alleles.

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In plants, a trait has a narrow-sense heritability of 0.75.  This indicates 

a) the trait is inherited from a parent 75% of the time.
b) the proportion of phenotypic variance due to environmental variance.
c) the degree of inbreeding from artificial selection.
d) the proportion of variance due to additive alleles.
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