IMPORTANT TERMS

quantitative genetics

meristic characteristic

threshold characteristic

frequency distribution

normal distribution

mean

variance

heritability

phenotypic variance

genetic variance

environmental variance

genetic–environmental interaction variance

additive genetic variance

dominance genetic variance

gene interaction variance

broad-sense heritability

narrow-sense heritability

quantitative trait locus (QTL)

natural selection

artificial selection

response to selection

selection differential

realized heritability