The average thorax length in a Drosophila population is 1.01 mm. You want to practice selective breeding

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The average thorax length in a Drosophila population is 1.01 mm. You want to practice selective breeding to make larger Drosophila. To do so, you choose 10 parents (5 males and 5 females) of the following sizes: 0.97, 0.99, 1.05, 1.06, 1.03, 1.21, 1.22, 1.17, 1.19, and 1.20. You mate them and then analyze the thorax sizes of 30 offspring (half male and half female): 0.99, 1.15, 1.20, 1.33, 1.07, 1.11, 1.21,0.94, 1.07, 1.11, 1.20, 1.01, 1.02, 1.05, 1.21, 1.22, 1.03,0.99, 1.20, 1.10, 0.91, 0.94, 1.13, 1.14, 1.20, 0.89, 1.10, 1.04, 1.01, 1.26. Calculate the realized heritability in this group of flies.
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