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Ratio vs Heritability - What's the difference?

ratio | heritability |

As nouns the difference between ratio and heritability

is that ratio is a number representing a comparison between two things while heritability is (uncountable) the condition of being inheritable.

ratio

English

(wikipedia ratio)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A number representing a comparison between two things.
  • (arithmetic) The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
  • (legal) Short for ratio decidendi.

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    heritability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia heritability)
  • (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
  • (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