Microbiome

Heritability

Heritable traits are unquestionably those in an offspring that resemble the corresponding traits of the mother and father more than they resemble the same traits in a randomly selected member of the population. Before being included as a central idea within the evolutionary principle, inheritance or heredity became the subject of rigorous inquiry. The percentage of phenotypic variability that can be attributable to genetic variation is measured as heritability. This is not the same as saying that genetics account for this portion of a person's phenotype. For instance, it is erroneous to state that your personality is 60% inherited from your parents and 40% influenced by your environment because the heritability of personality developments is set at 0.06. The research team discovered that 97 percent of the microbiota