In a population of geese, the narrow-sense heritability for wing span is 0.5. The phenotypic variance is 0.8 and the environmental inheritance is 0.2. What is the additive genetic variance?

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Narrow-sense heritability (h^2) is the ratio of additive genetic variance (Va) to phenotypic variance (Vp). Given h^2 = 0.5 and Vp = 0.8, Va = h^2 * Vp = 0.5 * 0.8 = 0.4.

In a Population of Geese, the Narrow-Sense Heritability for Wing