Test your knowledge: Accuracy

Accuracy is a measure of the amount of information informing a breeding value. This is expressed as a value between 0 and 100. As the accuracy value gets closer to 100, the breeding value:

Highly heritable traits can achieve higher levels of accuracy from the phenotype of that trait alone, compared to lowly heritable traits.

Rank the below information for the amount of accuracy they will provide to a weaning weight breeding value. Rank in order of low to high accuracy.

When an animal has low accuracy for a trait, and then the animal has 50 progeny measured for the trait added, the breeding value is likely to: