Difference between heritability and coheritablity?
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What is the difference between heredity and heritability?
Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Through heredity, variations between individuals can accumulate and cause species to evolve by natural selection. The study of heredity in biology is genetics.
eg. John has inherited his blue eyes from his great grandmother from his mother’s side of the family and his father who is blue eyed. Blue being recessive.
Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population. In other words, the concept of heritability can alternately be expressed in the form of the following question: "What is the proportion of the variation in a given trait within a population that is not explained by the environment or random chance?
eg. In the Black population, the % of the brown eyed gene is 100% whereas in the white population the % of blue eyed gene is 50%, but the % of blue eyed people are only 25% because the blue eyed gene is recessive and only occurs in the homozygote