QUESTION 5 You have been hired as a quantitative genetics consultant by a fair-trade cooperative of indigenous farmers to help them improve coffee bean production. Your experiment has determined the following variances for coffee bean production on this cooperative farm: Total phenotypic variance Additive genetic variance Dominance genetic variance Genic interaction variance 200 60 100 Environmental variance 40 Genotype x environment variance What is the heritability of coffee production in this population?

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