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quantitative genetics

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quantitative genetics [′kwän·ə·tād·iv jə′ned·iks]
(genetics)
The study of continuously varying traits, such as height or milk yield.


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That is, quantitative genetics aims to analyze quantitatively the familiar qualitative observation that relatives resemble each other more than nonrelatives, and in doing so to provide rigorous analyses of the genetic composition of populations, the selective forces that generated these configurations, and predictions about the way in which they will respond to natural and artificial selection.
Models of evolutionary response to selective harvest have usually taken one of two approaches: quantitative genetics (e.
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