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Detailed explanation-1: -Stuti Sharma’s book “Element of Quantitative Genetics”

Detailed explanation-2: -Quantitative genetics is the study of the genetic basis underlying phenotypic variation among individuals, with a focus primarily on traits that take a continuous range of values. Some familiar examples include height, weight, and longevity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Quantitative genetics deals with the genetics of continuously varying characters. Rather than considering changes in the frequencies of specific alleles of genotypes, quantitative genetics seeks to “quantify” changes in the frequency distribution of traits that cannot easily be placed in discrete phenotypic classes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Population genetics traditionally deals with frequencies of alleles and genotypes, whereas quantitative genetics concentrates on the ways that individual variation in genotype and environment contribute to variance in phenotype.