What does it mean to say that a characteristic is heritable? a. The characteristic evolves. b. The characteristic can be passed on to offspring. c. The characteristic is advantageous to the organism. d. The characteristic does not vary in the population.

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Welcome back. Our next question says A characteristic is heritable if it is blank from parents to offspring. So heritable would be mean able to be inherited and something is able to be inherited if it is passed or transmitted through jeans from parent to offspring. So let's look at our answer choices. Choice A says transmissible. So that is our correct answer. Because characteristic is heritable. If it is transmissible from parents to offspring. So highlight that. But to be thorough we'll just look throughout other choices. Choice B. Says compatible. Well it doesn't matter what kind of trade it is or anything about it so compatible. Not quite sure what the meaning of that would be here. But any sort of descriptor of the trade doesn't matter. It only has to be transmissible able to be passed no matter what kind of trade it is. So choice be not a good description of what heritable means. Choice C. Says helpful. Well it doesn't have to be helpful characteristic. You could inherit a genetic disease from your parents. So that does not describe heritable. So Choice C. Not the correct answer. And choice D. Common doesn't matter how common it is. One could inherit a very rare trait. So Choice D also not our correct answer. So a characteristic is heritable if it is choice a transmissible from parents to offspring. So that was a nice easy one. See you in the next video