heritability

English

Noun

heritability (countable and uncountable, plural heritabilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
2. (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin

Synonyms

• inheritability (much less common)

Antonyms

• environmentability

Translations

the ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺傳力 / 遗传力 (yíchuánlì), 遺傳度 / 遗传度 (yíchuándù)

• Czech: dědivost f
• Dutch: erfelijkheid (nl) f
• French: héritabilité (fr) f
• German: Heritabilität f
• Japanese: 遺伝率 (いでんりつ, itenritsu)
• Macedonian: наследност f (naslednost)
• Swedish: ärftlighet (sv) c
• Vietnamese: hệ số di truyền (係數遺傳)