If the correlation for a given personality trait in a set of same-sex fraternal twins is .25 and the correlation for that same personality trait is .75 in a set of identical twins, we can assume the heritability estimate is approximately

a. .50.
b. .25.
c. 1.00.
d. none of these answers are correct


C

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