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  2. Heritability - Wikipedia

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    Heritability can also change as a result of changes in the environment, migration, inbreeding, or how heritability itself is measured in the population under study. [9] The heritability of a trait should not be interpreted as a measure of the extent to which said trait is genetically determined in an individual. [10] [11]

  3. Heredity - Wikipedia

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    Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

  4. Genetics - Wikipedia

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    The degree to which an organism's genes contribute to a complex trait is called heritability. [53] Measurement of the heritability of a trait is relative—in a more variable environment, the environment has a bigger influence on the total variation of the trait. For example, human height is a trait with complex causes.

  5. Longevity - Wikipedia

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    Shqip; Simple English; ... according to a US-Belgian-UK research database of human genetic variants [12] these explain only a small fraction of the heritability. ...

  6. Epigenetics - Wikipedia

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    Epigenetic mechanisms. In biology, epigenetics is the study of heritable traits, or a stable change of cell function, that happen without changes to the DNA sequence. [1] The Greek prefix epi-(ἐπι-"over, outside of, around") in epigenetics implies features that are "on top of" or "in addition to" the traditional (DNA sequence based) genetic mechanism of inheritance. [2]

  7. Hereditarianism - Wikipedia

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    Hereditarians point to the heritability of cognitive ability, and the outsized influence that cognitive ability has on life outcomes, as evidence in favor of the hereditarian viewpoint. [4] According to Plomin and Van Stumm (2018), "Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important educational, occupational and health outcomes better than ...

  8. Eugenics - Wikipedia

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    A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society.Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely".Eugenics (/ j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality ...

  9. Albanian language - Wikipedia

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    Albanian (endonym: shqip ⓘ, gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ], or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group. [9] It is the native language of the Albanian people.