heritability

English

Noun

heritability (countable and uncountable, plural heritabilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
2. (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin

Synonyms

• inheritability (much less common)

Antonyms

• environmentability

Translations

the ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance

• Czech: dědivost f
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• French: héritabilité (fr) f