Capsicum chinense, commonly known as a habanero pepper, is a species of chili pepper
native to the Americas. You are part of a breeding project to produce habanero plants with
larger fruit. Narrow-sense heritability for habanero pepper fruit weight is 0.5. Average fruit
weight is 15 g. You have a very large field of habanero pepper plants to work with, so you
are able to select fruits that are 2 g. heavier on average than the population mean, to plant
seeds for the next generation. How many generations of habanero pepper plants do you
need to grow in order to obtain a population that has an average fruit weight twice as heavy
as the original? (5pt)
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