Question

a) Calculate the covariance between parents and offspring.

b) Calculate the deviation of each midparent from the mean forall the mid-parent values, and the deviation of each offspring fromthe mean of all offspring.

c) Calculate the additive genetic variance, and theheritability.

d) What do you predict would be the mean leaf area among theprogeny of this selected group?

Parent	Offspring
51.76	47.69
52.70	27.00
33.16	62.70
45.61	37.23
42.75	53.59
52.17	49.10
68.06	49.61
56.07	46.24
33.12	44.38
34.51	35.61
63.65	51.09
44.67	19.60
46.58	41.47
18.17	41.21