Which of these statements about heritability is FALSE? - - a. Twin studies can offer insight into broad sense heritability of human traits - b. Broad sense heritability measures the ratio of genetic variation to phenotypic variance - c. Narrow-sense heritability measures the contribution of additive genotypic variance to phenotypic variance - d. Heritability measures the extent to which environmental variation contributes to the total phenotypic variation - e. High narrow sense heritability values are correlated with a great degree of response to artificial selection

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1. Which of these statements about heritability is FALSE? - - a. Twin studies can offer insight into broad sense heritability of human traits - b. Broad sense heritability measures the ratio of genetic variation to phenotypic variance - c. Narrow-sense heritability measures the contribution of additive genotypic variance to phenotypic variance - d. Heritability measures the extent to which environmental variation contributes to the total phenotypic variation - e. High narrow sense heritability values are correlated with a great degree of response to artificial selection