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Anushka's father and mother are above average intelligent but Anushka has average intelligence. This is the example of heredities' ..............................
Answer: D
This is an example of the Law of regression.
Francis Galton observed that children of exceptionally tall parents tend to be shorter than their parents, and children of very short parents taller, so that offspring 'regress' towards the average of the population. The same holds for intelligence: Anushka's above-average parents have a child of average intelligence.
The law of 'like begets like' would predict an above-average child, the opposite of what happened. The law of variation says children differ from their parents and from one another, but it does not say in which direction; the specific movement towards the mean is regression. 'Law of average' is not one of the laws of heredity.
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