Question: A farmer is growing corn. His present crop produces an average of 4.7 ears per plant. If he selec…
Show transcribed image text A farmer is growing corn. His present crop produces an average of 4.7 ears per plant. If he selects a pair of plants that between them produced an average of 8.4 ears per plant, and the narrow-sense heritability of ears per plant is 0.78, what can he expect for an average number of ears per plant in the next generation?
A farmer is growing corn. His present crop produces an average of 4.7 ears per plant. If he selects a pair of plants that between them produced an average of 8.4 ears per plant, and the narrow-sense heritability of ears per plant is 0.78, what can he expect for an average number of ears per plant in the next generation?
